Wilfully

Examples

• If you err wilfully, I shall devise a proportionate punishment. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Is it likely that I would wilfully add to my other self-reproaches, that of being ungrateful or treacherous to you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The ordinary man prefers easy ways so long as they may be followed, and is almost wilfully heedless whether they end at last in a cul-de-sac. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the other--had you half-killed me, had it been that you wilfully took the sight away from these feeble eyes of mine, I could have forgiven you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I would not wilfully bring a tear to your eyes, dear love! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am not wilfully trying your patience--I should only be adding to your suspense, if I attempted to relieve it as things are now. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I also promise that if ever I see her doing what I think is wrong'---- 'But Margaret never does wrong--not wilfully wrong,' pleaded Mrs. Hale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Yes, Miss Bennet, interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you wilfully act against the inclinations of all. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His aunt (my Mistress you will please to remember) deliberately, wilfully, added to my trials and vexations. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Your influence, sir, is evidently potent with him: he will never set you at defiance or wilfully injure you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But the need for unification against the greater powers that moved outside the Greek-speaking world, the Greek mind disregarded wilfully. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Caroline is incapable of wilfully deceiving anyone; and all that I can hope in this case is that she is deceiving herself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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