Word: amissions
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...beauteous Françoise de Foix, one of his mistresses, did. Francis' royal handling of an embarrassingly bourgeois situation became a classic. The intruder, surprised by Francis' unexpected knock, took shelter in the fireplace, which was screened by leafy boughs. Francis, as if unaware that anything was amiss, treated Françoise in his usual fashion, then relieved himself into the fireplace...
...various stages of adolescence, tanking from a Princeton freshman down to a stripling of thirteen a whom pirates are still compositions. When his oldest daughter being to quiz him on the sex life of the ear be has brought as a gift, the father begins to suspect something amiss. When he finds his oldest son engaged in an affair with a mercenary Portuguese wench, and his two youngest offspring engaging in heated discussion of Freudian neuroses, he is sure there is something amiss. When he meets the young professor he finds out what...
...clock the third night, after the sea had calmed down a little, it seemed to Angler Howell that something was amiss. The tuna was pulling at his line a little less sturdily and his runs were shorter. By midnight, the boat, which had been towed approximately 200 miles in two and a half days, was 60 mi. off Liverpool and Angler Howell realized that it was practically standing still. He reeled in his tuna slowly until it was close enough to gaff. Then began a battle to rope the tuna's tail...
...memory of Norman Foster in that epitome of dullness, "Pilgrimage," serves to turn the reviewer against that noble gentleman, but it cannot be said that his schoolboy shyness in speech and action go amiss in "Walls of Gold." It is still difficult, however, to watch him when he is angry. Mr. Foster should confine himself to such parts as he played in "State Fair...
...have lately received them in batches from my brother, and can vouch for the extreme accuracy of your English news at least; so I am confident that all your foreign news must be of the same level. Myself, I am a glutton for reading books, papers, magazines, nothing comes amiss. To me, but for its size, I've never come across a magazine which takes such a devil of a lot of reading, and you simply can't skip any. But what surprises me most is the circulation. A magazine the exact counterpart of yours published in London...