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Was Miss Mortimer trying to tell her that something was amiss?

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“Very sorry, my lord. Not sure what went amiss with the hounds today. I promise it won’t happen again.”

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Huddled around their tables, locals poured into The Barking Dog each week to take on a pub quiz - but one thing was amiss.

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On this, the last day of his life, Seymour says goodbye to Sybil, who suspects nothing is amiss.

Wren Chambers was on the train that stopped at Huntingdon and first became aware that something was amiss when a man bolted down the carriage with a bloody arm, saying "they've got a knife, run".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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