"Take exception" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... need to teach you how to discredit their beginning, you know how to take exception at their shirts at washing, or to make the maids swear they ...
— The Scornful Lady • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... not without a touch of displeasure, "to which you take exception, are taken bodily from correspondence (which I happened to have the advantage of perusing) addressed by the late Lord Evenwood to Animalcula, Queen of the High Wire at Astley's Circus. His lordship, I may add, was considered an authority in ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
... wife of Levaque the miner, and mother of Philomene and Bebert. She was a bad housekeeper, and was roughly treated by her husband, who, however, did not take exception to her relations with ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson
... anything your fashionable guests might take exception to? Am I likely to do anything ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... neckcloth half undone, and stepped toward me, alertly courteous. "You mean you take exception to what I have ...
— The Unspeakable Gentleman • John P. Marquand
... "Your Honor, I take exception! It is my purpose to place James Holden on the witness stand, and there to show this Court and all the world that he is of honorable mind, properly prepared to assume the rights of an adult. We not only propose to show that he ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... all events, in no mood to take exception to these little defects. I am not sure that I did not even regard them in the light of additional attractions. That which in another I should have called bete, I set down to the score of naivete in Mademoiselle Josephine. One is not diffident at ...
— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards |
