Several times there were attempts made to take me, but I was still too cunning for them: yet at last they over-reacht me; it will not be amiss to relate in what manner.
These sheets of the play were thrown aside, and so far of little account; but this--if aught were to comeamiss to this letter, how should I regard myself?
I gone amiss the other way, and become too like a city dame?
Charles joins with me in affectionate remembrances to you all, and he is more warm in his expressions of gratitude for the turkey because he is fonder of good eating than I am, though I am not amiss in that way.
It would not be amiss if you were to accompany your present with a dissertation on negative quantities.
Something has gone amiss with him today; I know it by his step, and by the sound The door made as he shut it.
Forth I launch On the sustaining air, nor fear to fall Like Icarus, nor swerve aside like him Who drove amiss Hyperion's fiery steeds.
Time, my dear, will do nothing for me, except I could hear something very much amiss of this man.
It may not be amiss to note that the author credits Koster with the glory of the invention of printing.
In conclusion, however, it may not be amiss to recite a few of the earlier examples of provincial editing.
Orpheus's drapery is too yellow, but it don't look amissat all.
It was a great relief to me to find that you did not take amiss what I wrote about wall painting, and that you quite understood that I could only become so wrathful regarding a matter which interests me in the highest degree.
They would take it amiss should you not do it, and they would be right.
I shall then take it amiss if mischievous young people laugh at me.
Zabern marked Barbara's look of humiliation, and thought it not amiss to give the emperor quid pro quo.
No doubt, added to this there was a feeling that "Lizzie," as she was not uncommonly called by people who had hardly ever seen her, had something amiss with it all.
It wouldn't be amissthat he should be a little jealous.
She came down-stairs to sit at lunch with Lady Linlithgow, and the old woman did not perceive that anything was amiss with her companion.
Mrs. Merrill's adventures were very strange and romantic, and as we shall not again have occasion to write of her, it may not be amiss to interrupt the regular course of this narrative and tell what happened to her.
It may not be amiss to insert here a description of what was known to the various Indian tribes as the Sun Dance.
Before setting down the narrative of the Dull Knife Raid, or any other, it is not amiss to relate something of the conditions that prevailed prior to those events.
In this connection, it may not be amiss to say something of the Medicine Man, and the part he played in the Indian raids.
The intermission of the pills for a few days (not however for a whole week) he thinks not amiss to aid in determining its effects.
In the meantime, it will not be amiss to send me an account of money advanced to him.
But the letter spoke of nothing amiss as regarded Dorothy, and did not indeed even mention Dorothy's name.
At any rate, if there were anything amiss with Emily's temper, it would be well that she should find her master in such a husband as Louis Trevelyan.
Nothing comes amiss to their palate; the corn scattered about the yard which is disdained by other fowls, and the meanest remnants of the leavings of the table and kitchen, they do not reject.
Yes, I saw JolAinta," was the answer, given with such a grave shake of the head that Dora asked whether there were anything amiss with her.
I have been a soldier, good dame," answered Morton, "and nothing can come amiss to me in the way of entertainment.
It might not be amiss therefore, I thought, to alarm them a little with apprehension, that the methods they are taking with me are the very reverse of those they should take to answer the end they design by them.
You have not behaved much amiss to him: we have seen with pleasure that you have not-- O Madam, must I not now speak!
It is not amiss to call it emerald, for there are so many plants here with glossy leaves, that under the brilliant sunlight the lustre of the green is almost more than the eye can bear.
Before recounting the results of my own experience, however, in any form, it will not be amiss to attempt some general description of the island and of its population, and to give a slight sketch of its history.
We truly repent of all we may have done amiss in Thy lower world.
I don't know what's amiss with me," continued Austin, staggering to his feet.
His agitation when he sent for Mr. Playmore to interfere was witnessed by that gentleman, and (it may not be amiss to add) was genuine agitation beyond dispute.
It may not be amiss to add that her marriage preceded his marriage.
It may not be amiss to add a word which may help to explain Mrs. Macallan's jealousy of her husband's cousin.
If you have done anythingamiss that it is necessary that I should know let me know it at once.
I do not know that I have done anything amiss of which I need tell you," she said with quiet dignity.
She had done amiss in keeping that secret so long, and though the punishment had been severe, it was not altogether undeserved.
For that something was, just now, amiss with Charles Verity, Carteret could not disguise from himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amiss" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
