They ask, and have not, because they ask amiss, to consume it on their lusts; and so they spend their lives without peace, longing, struggling for things outside them, the greater part of which they do not get, because the getting them is not in their own power, and which if they got they could not keep, for they can carry nothing away with them when they die, neither can their pomp follow them.

Then, should you find aught amiss in my steward's books, anything to shake your confidence in his management, you will, in justice to your friends, in kindness to me, speak your mind openly, that instant reformation may be made.

And she never hit him a lick amiss, either.

To omit future reward, Was it not always esteemed of old, that correcting evil practices, reducing people that lived amiss, was much better than making a high rant about a shuttlecock, and talking tara-tantara about a feather?

Ev'n that confirms me, I have loved amiss; Since thou canst know I love, and not imagine It must be Philocles.

But on his cheek pressed she her kiss, And she had noted naught amiss.

There stood he, while deep attention Held the judges round, Judges able, I should mention, To detect the slightest sound Sung or played amiss: such ears Had old judges, it appears!

It is to praise the Gods amiss.

Max, who was gloomy, took her sprightliness amiss, thinking, no doubt, that her life also ought to be darkened by the cloud that he thought was over-shadowing him.