Sentence examples for It amiss from inspiring English sources

Would we think it amiss to train the staff at a school in the Heimlich maneuver in case a child starts choking on a grape?

When Hilaire Belloc praised PGWodehouse as the best English writer of their day, Walpole took it amiss, to the amusement of Wodehouse who regarded Belloc's plaudit as "a gag, to get a rise out of serious-minded authors whom he disliked".

No one seemed to take it amiss.

FOREIGN readers should not take it amiss when Bagehot says that, by international standards, public life in Britain is remarkably clean.

If one of us comes down after a few hours at the desk and doesn't feel up to conversation, the other won't take it amiss.

But I hope you won't take it amiss if the horse that you back should be shouldered aside by the toughest, most resilient chaser of my lifetime.

It was Amiss who, as chief executive of Warwickshire in 2002, put the pen in the hand of Jonathan Trott and got the contract signed.

We're not getting married anytime soon, I have debt, there are hungry people in the world, etc. Would it be amiss to see if friends and family want to chip in for his half of the dinner?

The reviewer, however noted that after watching Loving You, it was "amiss to speak unkindly of [Presley]", and that the film was "a rather entertaining pic".

First, he claimed that it wasn't absolutely clear, even during the manic market run-up of 1999, that something was amiss: "it was very difficult to definitively identify a bubble until after the fact -- that is, when its bursting confirmed its existence".

While I certainly admired it, something was amiss.