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
I will never take amiss anything they may say or do; and they will behave in the same way to me.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
Three more words about thee, the world will still not take amiss from me!
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
If you think the Dutch would take amiss our not applying to them, I will join you in the application.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Why should my shepherd take amiss, That oft I wake thee with a kiss?
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst
