take amiss
Example Sentences
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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
Make poetry of what you please for me; But how if Mrs. Halm should take amiss Your breaking of her furniture to pieces?
From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
This was one of those enigmas in which the Delphian oracle usually spoke, saying things with a double meaning, and which men were apt to take amiss.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
You will not take amiss what I have said, as it arises from no personal ill-feeling towards you.”
From The Ferryman of Brill and other stories by Kingston, William Henry Giles
It would clearly be impossible to take amiss anything that this woman might choose to say.
From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Diver, Maud
