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There's a notice by the gangway, an 'it seems to come amiss,
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894
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Shoot soft, sweet Love! for fear thou shoot amiss,
Tudor and Stuart Love Songs John Potter Briscoe 1887
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Therefore I thought good to ask you; but I pray you think not amiss,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Look on the scene around us now, and say if sung amiss,
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If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss,
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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Schlesinger's, when I will come to town; for, in case any thing goes amiss,
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 Ludwig van Beethoven 1798
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With vows like these he won her o'er to think for what was not amiss,
Una's Lock 1791
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Was all perfection, unto that degree that 'twas impossible to do amiss,
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I will ask, if you please, next time He comes down, why He keeps such a filthy cur in His yard; I hope He will not take it amiss,
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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The account given at the time to the press by Brigadier General Yair Naveh, in charge of IDF forces in Gaza, was that it had been intended as an arrest operation, but that sensing something amiss,
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