be displeased by

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Your Majesty, therefore, need have no further anxiety about my journey, and must not be displeased by it.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand

On sending to Mr. Hallam a copy of the Review in which it appeared,  I expressed my hope that he would not be displeased by what I had done.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

I thought that you would not be displeased by it, as a proof of grateful regard from me.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

"Will you promise me, then," said Amadour, "that you will not be displeased by what I wish to tell you, nor yet alarmed at it, until you have heard me to the end?"

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George

If any be displeased by the result, I can but submit that my verses are my own, and that this is how I would have them read.

From Poems by Henley, William Ernest