take amiss
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George R. Tracy San Clemente, Calif. Not all vegetarians would take amiss John Leo's remark about their preverbal innocence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without beating about the bush, my dear," she began, "I'm here on a meddlesome business which you mustn't take amiss.
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
It would clearly be impossible to take amiss anything that this woman might choose to say.
From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver
Whenever persons come to suspect each other, they take amiss everything even that is done in their behalf, and yield wholly to their belligerent instincts.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Herbert Baldwin Foster
Young gentleman," said he at last, "before we man the windlass I have to beg you'll not take amiss any questions I may put.
From A Marriage at Sea by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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