Willed

Examples

• All children were so: a little anxious for novelty, and--no, not selfish, but self-willed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• YOU'LL see to that, you self-willed creature. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• From that hour the way she had chosen lay before her, and she trod it with her own imperious self-willed step. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Close at hand was Poland, ready to rise up and become the passionate ally of France had Napoleon but willed it so. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Self-willed, obstinate, selfish, and ungrateful. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Gerty had given him this supreme half-hour, and he must use it as she willed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Would have been self-willed (he thought in his eminently practical way) but for her bringing-up. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The little boy, your godson, is certainly a fine child, though forward, and inclined to be saucy and self-willed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As self-willed and as determined a man, in the wrong way, as ever put a human creature under heaven out of patience! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The people we called weak-willed or self-indulgent always deceive themselves as to the consequences of their acts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Self-willed--devilish self-willed sometimes--I grant; but the finest creature, nevertheless, that ever walked the ways of this lower world. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I admit that she has her faults--she is secret, and self-willed; odd and wild, and unlike other girls of her age. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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