How To Use Amiss In A Sentence
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something went badly amiss in the preparations
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According to Damascene (De Fide Orth. iii, 24), "to pray is to ask becoming things of God"; wherefore it is useless to pray for what is inexpedient, according to James 4: 3, "You ask, and receive not: because you ask amiss.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Some English roses from the FA would not have gone amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return.
The Essays
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_ 45, 'Nobis tam longae absentiae condicione ante quadriennium amissus est.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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Some assistance in the current crisis would not come amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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We should have figured something was amiss when, after getting back on the highway, the coolant started again pouring from the heater onto the floor, but faster than I could soak it up.
Broken Down Blues…
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Dr. Ross says his findings move "human ocular extramission," which he also refers to as an "eyebeam," from the realm of superstition to science.
Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
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In a time of vapid politicians who only speak from pre-agreed scripts, a bit of colour, rank mischief and sharp politics cannot go amiss.
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Mrs Healy saw him running as she looked from her bow window and knew that something must be amiss.
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Failure to enact the Bill would be taken amiss around the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only mind, if you will forgive me, my lord -- mind to spice high with Latin; a curn or two of Greek would not be amiss; and, if you can bring in any thing about the judgment of Solomon, in the original Hebrew, and season with
The Fortunes of Nigel
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No alarm went off, and the officers patrolling the perimeter didn't notice anything amiss.
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Not that the Russian leader was giving any hint that anything was amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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A little bit actressy, if you know what I mean, but that didn't go amiss as far as the Amanda performance was concerned.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
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No one would take it amiss if he found the Minoan Palace irresistibly romantic.
THE QUEST FOR K
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One is taking the bambino's temperature daily, maybe even morning and night, always at exactly the same hour, although nothing seems to be amiss.
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My wife refuses to see anything is amiss, and doctors support her view that it is menopausal.
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In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.
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It is not amiss to consider this spell of potency, this abracadabra, that is hung about the necks of the unhappy, not to heal, but to communicate disease.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
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The right brain noted something amiss ... Meanwhile, Yeremi's logical tech-side dreamed.
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He will take it amiss if you refuse his invitation.
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But a little humility from the diet police would not go amiss.
The Sun
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Perhaps a little less generalisation wouldn't go amiss.
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On the face of it, there does seem to be something amiss here.
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Capt C. killed 2 bucks and 2 buffaloe, I also killed one buffaloe which proved to be the best meat, it was in tolerable order; we saved the best of the meat, and from the cow I killed we saved the necessary materials for making what our wrighthand cook Charbono calls the boudin (poudingue) blanc, and immediately set him about preparing them for supper; this white pudding we all esteem one of the greatest del [ic] acies of the forrest, it may not be amiss therefore to give it a place.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss.
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Begging you will not take it amiss I shall ever be your dutiful servant.
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The technology has gone badly amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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What goes amiss in the smoker's crusade to defend themselves is the rights of the people who don't want to be subjected to smoke.
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A solid defender would not go amiss and another forward is required after only two goals in the opening three league games.
Times, Sunday Times
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“It willna be amiss ye should ken,” said Cuddie to his master, “that this Jenny — this Mrs Dennison, was trying to cuittle favour wi’ Tam Rand, the miller’s man, to win into
Old Mortality
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The only vessels in view were mercantile ones, moving about their business as though nothing at all were amiss.
KING OF DREAMS
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Michael arrived at the Wall to find no sign that anything was wrong or amiss.
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_ 9, '[Orbilius] vixit prope ad centesimum aetatis annum, amissa iam pridem memoria, ut versus Bibaculi docet,
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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That which was amiss among the Thessalonians, which is expressed,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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How could anything be amiss with the world?
Times, Sunday Times
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Ploratur lachrymis amissa pecunia veris, saith the Gl. de poenitent. distinct.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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There is something seriously amiss among most people passing for politicians.
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I never thought something was amiss until today when I came across this forum and a chance stumbling on to some related websites.
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But ministers should realise that it will take far more than the government's own political priorities to deliver success ... and a word of acknowledgement wouldn't go amiss.
Are children still a priority for the government?
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It will not be here amisse to adde this one observation further; That it is better to drinke this water once a day, then twice, and that in the mornings, after that the Sunne hath dryed up & consumed the vapors retained through the coldnesse of the night, &c. as is formerly declared.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain
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A bit of patience will not go amiss in this area either: what one sows another reaps.
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I suppose we should have guessed something was amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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The customer complains the LSJA0621 department article assemble bore to come amiss and wrinkly severity of its finished product plait.
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Audacter adfirmem, si tua forent quae amissa conquereris nullo modo perdidisses.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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A spokesman for the firm has denied anything is amiss - but cannot precisely say how many partners currently work there.
Times, Sunday Times
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Field, and respected and respectable, as respectable as respec-table can respectably be, though their orable amission were the herrors I could have expected, all, let them all come, they are my villeins, with chartularies I have talledged them.
Finnegans Wake
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And a little empathy wouldn't go amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jim Redding, my chief mechanical designer, and I followed the lorry all the way to make sure nothing went amiss.
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Over the last couple days though I've been getting signals that something might be amiss.
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I say a little cut would not have come amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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I noticed something was amiss when I checked my email accounts and my mail software froze for a minute or so while the hard drive on my computer whirred.
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Why would he have had to do so unless he detected something amiss?
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Keep your orders and shipping together in a separate folder so you can refer to them later something goes amiss.
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But after a while my parents began to realise that there was something seriously amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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The workers decided to investigate the carriages, to see what was amiss.
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Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
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Several more officers examined the picture and, having drawn the conclusion that something was amiss, called the police.
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Videtur ergo Marcellus sub finem vitae aliquid peccasse, quod Athanasium ab ejus communione discedere cogeret: et cum jamdudum a tota fere oriente damnatus esset, amissa Athanasii communione, quae unicum fere illius refugium erat, desertus ab omnibus videri debuit, nec ei nova ignominia notato prodesse poterat concessa olim a Romana Ecclesia communio.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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_ 45, 'Nobis tam longae absentiae condicione ante quadriennium amissus est.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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Samiramiss is one of the area's Middle Eastern mainstays, and one that seems to have its share of regulars, who come often to nosh on their Lebanese specialities for lunch or dinner.
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The spiritual man also judges by approving what is right and reproving what he finds amiss in the works and morals of the faithful, such as in their almsgiving, which is signified by the phrase, "The earth bringing forth its fruit.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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Nobody dared to risk incurring royal displeasure by suggesting that some things within the palace were seriously amiss.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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Please don't take it amiss, if I point out your errors.
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A toxic cloud at the edge of awareness, a sensation that something is amiss?
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Whatever was amiss, and something definitely was, this was a most uncharacteristic display.
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Jugurtha postquam amissa Thala nihil satis firmum contra Metellum putat, per magnas solitudines cum paucis profectus, pervenit ad
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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Any further shocks would be taken amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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But indeed it is only strictly speaking that something is amiss, only if the allegorical content of each personification must be taken seriously.
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He knew by their demeanors that something was amiss.
The Dragon’s Apprentice
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Even allowing for his inevitable bias, to figure that 17 decisions went against his team suggests something serious was amiss.
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I will acquaint him with my project, or if any worthy man will stand for any temporal or spiritual office or dignity, (for as he said of his archbishopric of Utopia, 'tis sanctus ambitus, and not amiss to be sought after,) it shall be freely given without all intercessions, bribes, letters,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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If we don't give them a proper burial then we are amiss.
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Something has gone amiss and we need to find out what.
The Sun
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This was the first formal indication that anything was seriously amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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A word of apology might not go amiss.
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A new pair of shoes wouldn't come amiss.
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Well, Bluebell is our heroine, and we must make the best of her, -- to some people admiration never does come amiss; and if a demure _oeillade_ can play the mischief with the too inflammable of the rougher sex, I don't know who is to be held accountable except the father of lies.
Bluebell A Novel
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Serving staff do not take this amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Saying he would fight for the truth, he even attended a cabinet meeting chaired by the vice president as if nothing was amiss.
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His joke was taken amiss by some of the company.
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She sensed something was amiss right now!
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Using a liquid feed on them will not come amiss either.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Fleta, '_Solet justiciarius pro quolibet mahemio ad amissionem testiculorum vel oculorum convictum coudemnare, sed non sine errore, eo quod id judicium nisi in corruptione virginum lantum competebat; nam pro virginitatis corruptione solebant abscidi et merito judicari, ut sic pro membro quod abstulit, membrum per quod deliquit amitteret, viz. lesticulos, qui calorem stupri induxerunt_,' &c. Fleta.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
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Secondly, Vision is beatifical, as it is commonly called, and that not amiss.
Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
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He phoned the Justice Department - the first alert to anything amiss.
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Non di - cit) quam aeterns beaticudinis amissionem incurrere) sed quam Deum offendere Summum sctticec Booum, infuiite dignum omni amore •
Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ...
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But now, as to be silent of men's defects and vices is a piece of flattery, and flattery a degenerous and unworthy thing; yet, that all people may not promiscuously think themselves called upon to reprove and declare against whatsoever they see amiss in others, and so mistake that for charity and duty, which is indeed nothing else but sauciness and impertinence, it will be convenient to shew,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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A touch of humility before embarking on these lectures would also not come amiss.
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If something amiss is detected, the camera alerts a central control.
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We should have known something was amiss when it took three attempts to get the kick-off right!
The Sun
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if you think him guilty you judge amiss
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Then, when something goes amiss on Christmas Eve, he gets an opportunity to rescue Santa and save the holiday.
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Since the Mexica Movement includes all "indigenous" peoples under the heading of Nican Tlaca perhaps the example of the Kutchin and other native peoples of the Canadian north is not amiss here.
Aztec, Mexica, or Alien?
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A cup of tea wouldn't go amiss.
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So if your budget stretches to it, a book or record token or gift voucher as well may not go amiss.
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Pineapples are being grown in Karachi and its environs in increasing numbers so a few of these wouldn't go amiss along with physalis peruviana, better known as either Chinese gooseberry or cape gooseberry.
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Things go amiss when he discovers that a girl due for cremation is recalled by her insurance company.
REVIEW: 334 by Thomas M. Disch
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Amiss had an almost overwhelming desire to cadge a cigarette in order to demonstrate solidarity, but he repressed it.
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There is something amiss in the EU.
Times, Sunday Times
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They cannot afford to mock the bands they model themselves on but a bit of tongue-in-cheek humour doesn't go amiss either.
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* [2051] Amisso articulo justificationis, simul amissa est tota doctrina
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
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I was worried that he might take my remark amiss.
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Their instincts warned them something was amiss.
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I was worried that he might take my remark amiss.
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Book ii. commences at that point, and ends with the death of Livia, A.D. 29 (ii. 130, 5, 'cuius temporis aegritudinem auxit amissa mater').
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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A word of apology might not go amiss.
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It will not be amisse when you find it dankish to wipe over the leaves with a dry wollen cloth.
English Villages
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It was obvious that something was amiss.
The Sun
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Whatever was amiss, and something definitely was, this was a most uncharacteristic display by Munster.
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That's the most public concession that anything is amiss here, as Chinese media have given scant coverage to the riots.
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In a debate with Michael in Capri around 1990 I argued that their analysis went amiss in testing for real interest rate while omitting real exchange rates.
Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography
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Anthony doubted whether the old man deserved the dignity of stationmaster which he had ascribed to him but it did not seem to go amiss.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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AND anon as he had unshut the window the enchantment was gone; then he knew himself that he had done amiss.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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A bit of charm and humour would not go amiss.
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In any case, Amiss's mind was racing, grappling with a situation devoid of any rational explanation.
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So the embassy watchers were looking for anything amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nam fere, quem quisque vivus pugnando locum ceperat, eum amissa anima corpore tegebat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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Is there anything amiss with the computer?
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No one knows my body as well as I do, so I had an inkling something new was amiss.
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By-the-by," meaningly, "when you find yourself in the village, Davlin, it might not be amiss to show yourself at the inn.
Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
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The study's lead authors, World Bank economists Indermit Gill and Martin Raiser, conclude that the Continent's basic growth model of the last half-century is seriously amiss, and that it will take more than well-meaning summitry to fix it.
Why Europe Isn't Growing
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The first sign that anything was amiss was her aching limbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
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Everything goes amiss with him, he has certainly bad luck.
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Nobody dared to risk incurring royal displeasure by suggesting that some things within the palace were seriously amiss.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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_polisillable_ word: but to the purpose, _ryme_ is a borrowed word from the Greeks by the Latines and French, from them by vs Saxon angles and by abusion as hath bene sayd, and therefore it shall not do amisse to tell what this _rithmos_ was with the Greekes, for what is it with vs hath bene already sayd.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more
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A few nifty time changes really wouldn't go amiss and the relentless search for the funky backbeat often precludes the actual resolution of a hummable tune.
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When something about the magic act goes wrong, a glib tongue and a humorous manner can do much to gloss over the slip so that people do not notice that anything is amiss.
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Nobody dared to risk incurring royal displeasure by suggesting that some things within the palace were seriously amiss.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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Another plea may not go amiss.
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Obviously little would need to go amiss for the financial plan to go awry.
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So when Von Teese appeared on the catwalk wearing a floorlength, long-sleeved black dress, caught at her miniature waist with a jet black belt and lushly swagged over her hips and bosom, nothing seemed amiss.
Enfant terrible Jean Paul Gaultier puts striptease on the catwalk
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This is the loudest of warnings that something is now seriously amiss in the NHS.
Times, Sunday Times
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The soul is struck with the ardour of a fever, overwhelmed with an epilepsy, and displaced by a sharp megrim, and, in short, astounded by all the diseases that hurt the whole mass and the most noble parts; this never meddles with the soul; if anything goes amiss with her, 'tis her own fault; she betrays, dismounts, and abandons herself.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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A bit of élan and sleight of hand and perhaps just a twist of snobbery and insincere flattery wouldn't go amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Obviously little would need to go amiss for the financial plan to go awry.
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Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.
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First, a little sweetener never goes amiss to put some spine into your bought-and-paid-for pol.
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Since form is a main feature of the impact of a winter garden, indigenous plants such as cycads and aloes do not necessarily look amiss when included in a garden planting that already has these mature exotics in it.
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Her eyes were as bright, and her little wizen face was as sharp as ever; but the wizen face and the bright eyes were not so much amiss as seen together with the old dark brown silk dress which she now wore, as they had been with the wiggeries and the evening finery.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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At this point the store manager, who was taking stock nearby, sensed that there was something amiss at the till and walked over.
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If you're that sure that something's amiss, isn't the ‘evidence’ (inattention, shadiness, sparklessness, whatever) that led you - legally - to that conclusion sufficient?
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And that is why a brief prayer to St Zeno never goes amiss, when you go fishing with a hook.
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Once he bungled a somersault, but managed such a smooth entry into the next exercise that the spectators never suspected that anything was amiss.
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Capt C. killed 2 bucks and 2 buffaloe, I also killed one buffaloe which proved to be the best meat, it was in tolerable order; we saved the best of the meat, and from the cow I killed we saved the necessary materials for making what our wrighthand cook Charbono calls the boudin blanc, and immediately set him about preparing them for supper; this white pudding we all esteem one of the greatest delacies of the forrest, it may not be amiss therefore to give it a place.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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Claiming the first goal of a game from time to time would not go amiss either.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is not only Johnson's brute devilry which is missing, though when the Boks are scaling the ramparts a lashing of "cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wouldn't go amiss.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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Meie tööturumajanduse õppejõud, selles loengus, kus sai arutatud firmade strateegiaid tööjõu koolitamisse investeerimisest, kommenteeris, et andmed näitavad, et kõrgemast haridustasemest on alati kasu, ükskõik milline töö ka ei oleks, tootlikus tõuseb.
Tatsutahime Diary Entry
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Something is amiss when competition involves a race to the bottom.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was possibly as bad an all-round fielding side as has taken the field for England, notwithstanding the best wicketkeeper the game has seen; from A for Amiss, whose love of fielding was in inverse proportion to that for batting, to W for Willis, Willey – he of the gammy knee – and Woolmer, whom Keith Fletcher referred to as the Porky Fat Wobbler.
How the finer arts of fielding caught on with England | Mike Selvey
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he spoke amiss
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A little luck wouldn't go amiss right now!
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The truth is, we had read amiss, and the Queen had spelt amiss: the word was "Fellon," -- a sort of whitlow, -- not "Fellow.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
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In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.
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First came a tolerably good band, a little too drummy, but still not amiss -- well dressed, only the performers being of all colours, from white, down to jet -- black, had a curious hodge -- podge, or piebald appearance.
Tom Cringle's Log
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Colonel Barakzai made as if to raise his bayonetted gun once again, to run forward, when he noticed that something was amiss.
KARA KUSH
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All, therefore, that happened amiss, in the course even of domestic affairs, was attributed to the government; and as it always happens in this kind of officious universal interference, what began in odious power ended always, I may say without an exception, in contemptible imbecility.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
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Suhrawardi begins with a criticism and a rejection of the prevalent ˜extramissive™ and ˜intromissive™ theories of vision on account of the materialist implications of the imprinting of forms in the material substratum of the eye.
Suhrawardi
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It will not be amisse when you finde it dankish to wipe over the leaves with a dry woollen cloth.
Vanishing England
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But a little less symphonic sheen and a little more jazz wouldn't have come amiss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only mind, if you will forgive me, my lord — mind to spice high with Latin; a curn or two of Greek would not be amiss; and, if you can bring in any thing about the judgment of Solomon, in the original Hebrew, and season with a merry jest or so, the dish will be the more palatable. —
The Fortunes of Nigel
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When things have gone amiss in a side, it is the fielding that always gives it away: the overthrows, the collisions, the dropped catches, the dramatic dive clean over the ball.
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For wimmin, blocks of summer colour never go amiss, the only print in town being floral.
Times, Sunday Times
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_ 9, '[Orbilius] vixit prope ad centesimum aetatis annum, amissa iam pridem memoria, ut versus Bibaculi docet,
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
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Elsa continued as if nothing was amiss.
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If his staff were suspicious that something was amiss, they knew better than to disturb the irascible old despot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Renee, I simply do not think there is anything amiss with using the term gift when referring to the blessing of a baby.
MercatorNet
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Something seems to be amiss can I help?
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An elderly couple holiday with their two sons, but something is clearly amiss; the mother is distant and surly, ignoring everything around her.
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If Mr Gosse had found himself in the flood of poetastry in the reign of Elizabeth what would he have done about it? would he have stemmed it? what exactly is this abyss? and if something "has gone amiss with our standards," is it wholly the fault of the younger generation that it is aware of no authority that it must respect?
The Second-Order Mind
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If his staff were suspicious that something was amiss, they knew better than to disturb the irascible old despot.
Times, Sunday Times
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As much as anything else, he thought, it was the small things that were disturbing: the unmown grass at the park, the weeds protruding from the asphalt in the bank parking lot, the garbage cans lining the streets, filled with uncollected trash -- insignificant items on the surface, but telltale signs that something was seriously amiss.
Baby Games
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We do know something was seriously amiss in Chongqing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wherefore, when I speak harshly of one of your own kind, I know you will not take it amiss; and when I speak high of one of my father's people, you will not take it upon you to say, 'Sitka Charley is Siwash, and there is a crooked light in his eyes and small honor to his tongue.'
GRIT OF WOMEN
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It may not be amiss to observe, that the shags are the same bird which Bougainville calls saw-bills; but he is mistaken in saying that the quebrantahuessas are their enemies; for this bird is of the peterel tribe, feeds wholly on fish, and is to be found in all the high southern latitudes.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
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The organism, the community whose cells were men, whose life had flowed through seventy generations, seemed tense tonight, seemed to sense a note amiss tonight, seemed aware, through the connaturality of its membership, of what had been told to only a few.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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And that is why a brief prayer to St Zeno never goes amiss, when you go fishing with a hook.
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I had only to say, that -- oh! that I trust implicitly to your brother's honour; but, besides this, it will not be amiss for you to hint, as you know you can delicately -- _delicately_, you understand -- that it is for his interest to leave me to manage every thing.
Tales and Novels — Volume 05
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I felt like myself yet there was something wrong, something amiss, something lacking from the scene.
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Please don't take it amiss, if I point out your errors.
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And that is why a brief prayer to St Zeno never goes amiss, when you go fishing with a hook.
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The Fijian way of life is glorified as the kind of life where people look after you if anything goes amiss.
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Amiss had an almost overwhelming desire to cadge a cigarette in order to demonstrate solidarity, but he repressed it.
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He does say though that the ‘stunts that wouldn't look amiss in a video arcade’ and he praises him for expertly applying ‘the cold douche of unreality’.
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Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Alas! "sighed he," I know one in which all is stately; but there sits already a spruce young shopman, which is the only thing that's amiss in the whole shop.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Sleazy mass-market fiction has made a mint out of fading glamour and the stories of Hollywood dreams gone amiss.
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If it finds anything amiss it will correct it within a few seconds.
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Sensing something amiss in Eliza's failure to respond, Walker reached for the closer of her hands.
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no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly
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IT is not so easy to tell why discredit should be cast upon a man because of something that his grandfather may have done amiss, but the world, which is never overnice in its discrimination as to where to lay the blame, is often pleased to make the innocent suffer in the place of the guilty.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
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Among its members were Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785 – 1858), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781 – 1838), Wilhelm Neumann (1781 – 1834) and Heinrich von Kleist (1777 – 1811).
Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century.
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Something has gone amiss with him and that, for England, has been, as it were, the crux.
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He shone a light inside and saw nothing amiss.
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If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return.
XXXIII. Of Plantations
