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

Brothers: I hope you will not take amiss my changing my seat in this council.

From Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Drake, Benjamin

And the wretched Libor, bowing almost to the earth, made hurried answer, "How could I possibly take amiss anything that his Highness the Khan, my lord and master, may choose to do?"

From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by J?sika, Mikl?s

Let no one take amiss the frequent entries marked "cider."

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

And the queer thing was that she did not take amiss my infatuation, especially when you consider that she was the enemy of every passion that could not be made directly subservient to our work….

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster