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Short sentences using wilful

She was a wilful wife. [11]
It was a wilful voice. [11]

More example sentences with the word wilful in them

For she was wilful, you know, and would not have been governable. [5]
Seized of that wilful, daring spirit called Love, her sight was bounded by the little field where she strayed. [11]
But she seemed wilful too, and contradictory--at any rate to-day; for when Orion pointed out some move to her she rarely took his advice, but with set lips, pushed the piece according to her own, rarely wiser, judgment. [10]
But out of wilful idleness, the mere flattery of the senses, a vampire feeding upon the spirits and souls of others, for nothing save emotion for emotion's sake --that was shameless, it was the last humiliation of a woman. [11]
She was a wilful creature that must have her way in this matter. [6]
The broncho he was riding, as though the disturbance in Orlando's breast had passed into its own wilful body, suddenly became restless to be off, and as Orlando gave no encouragement, showed signs of bucking. [11]
First a long wain covered in by a tilt so high I trove that meseemed many a town gate might be over low to let it pass; and it was drawn by four right small little horses, with dark matted coats and bright, wilful eyes. [10]
There was something very wilful in her beauty, and her body too had delicate, melancholy lines strange in one so young. [11]
When he came to the point where Rudyard went from the house, leaving Stafford to deal with Fellowes, she burst again into laughter, mocking, wilful, painful. [11]
I have tried to tell you that the head of a stubborn, selfish, and wilful monarch blocked the way to reconciliation. [9]
It was clear to everyone that the jury must return a verdict of wilful murder, and it was equally clear that the evidence was sufficient to fix suspicion upon Orlando, which must lead to his arrest. [11]
Whatever may be thought of my books, they represent nothing except my own bent of mind, my own wilful expression of myself, and the setting forth of that which seized my imagination. [11]
When he finished there had been cheering, but in the quiet instant that followed the cheering, a habitant got up--a weird, wilful fellow who had a reputation for brag, yet who would not have hurt an enemy save in wild passion. [11]
Yes, here was the woman herself, wilful, original, delightful, with a flower-like delicacy joined to a determined and gorgeous audacity. [11]
Men with quick tempers might quarrel over trivial things, but exasperation did not always end in bodily injury and the taking of life; imprecations were not so uncommon that they could be taken as evidence of wilful murder. [11]
She looked up so full of perverse and wilful impulses, that Dick knew he could make her go with him and her father. [6]
Her disquieting, submissive smile haunted him as he roped his way down the stairs to the street, and then the face in the photograph replaced it--the laughing eyes, the wilful, pleasure--loving mouth he had seen in the school and college pictures of Preston Parr. [9]
In any case, she had lessened the distance between Ian and herself, and that gave her wilful mind a rather painful pleasure. [11]
A curious, wilful, rebellious look came into her eyes. [11]
He was reckless, rebellious against fate, insanely wilful, and what she had said concerning Ingolby had roused in him the soul of Cain. [11]
In truth, the Prince was wilful, and once he did a thing which might have given a twist to the fate of England. [11]
Time, bitterness, and power had hardened Philip's mind, and his long-restrained emotions, breaking loose now, made him a passionate and wilful figure. [11]
It did not occur to her that these reasons would vanish like mist--that a wilful woman would sweep them into the basket of forgetfulness, and do what she wished in spite of reason: that all else would be sacrificed, if the spirit so possessed her. [11]
It did so now as she admonished her beloved son, who at any time would have renounced fortune, or hope of fortune, for some wilful idea of his own. [11]
But these special lessons went on secretly, for I was sure, if people knew how warmly I followed this recreation, they would set it down to wilful desire to be singular--or worse. [11]
Her pride was less wilful and tempestuous than on the day when she drove him from her; when he said things which flayed her soul, and left her body as though it had been beaten with rods. [11]
He loved music; it acted as a clearing-house to his mind; and he played the piano himself with the enthusiasm of a wilful amateur, who took liberties with every piece he essayed. [11]
He was wilful, impetuous, sometimes supercilious, always fastidious. [6]
Think, for instance, how many cases of wilful poisoning I have had to investigate. [10]
Sally Seabrook, the high- spirited, the radiant, the sweetly wilful, the provoking, to concentrate herself upon this narrow theme--to reconquer the lost paradise of one vexed mortal soul! [11]
She had placed herself so completely in his power by her wilful waywardness and errors. [11]
The change in her was little less than a marvel to me, when I remembered the wilful miss who had come to London bent upon pleasure alone. [9]
Her devotion to her crippled father was in keeping with her quick response to every incident of sorrow or joy in the parish--only modified by wilful prejudices scarcely in keeping with her unselfishness. [11]
But how wroth he waxed, how hastily he put on the icy, forbidding bearing he was wont to wear, as he rated me for a wilful simpleton who would undo her brother's weal! [10]
The head, too, had a habit of coming up quickly with an almost wilful gesture, and with an air which, in others, might have been called pride. [11]
But he had found that Death is wilful and chooseth her own time; that she may be lured, but she will not come with shouting. [11]
The wilful, splendid character of the youth overcame the insistence in the other's nature. [11]
If the wilful blood of the Schoppers, unquelled as it had then been, had come into strife with Gotz's iron will, there would have been more than enough of hard hitting on both sides, and how easily might all our happiness have been wrecked thereby. [10]
Self-indulgent she had been, reckless and wilful and terribly modern, taking sweets where she found them. [11]
If I have been wilful and wicked, I have suffered more than you know--even as I have made you suffer. [9]
They have both been violent and wilful, and they have both been punished. [8]
Her eyes had been shut; her wilful nature had not been sensitive to the quality of the social air about her. [11]
Woman is wilful, and sometimes we wring her heart that we may afterwards comfort it. [11]
The old huntsman advanced respectfully towards the Bohemian princess, and Eva heard the fourteen-year-old wife ask, "Well, Count, how fares your wish to find the right husband for your wilful daughter? [10]
This was merely a wilful, miserable degeneracy. [11]
The governor was a testy man; he could not bear to be crossed in a matter; yet, in spite of all, I did not think he had a wilful hardness. [11]
To my mind--" "Father, if you will look at it without prejudice, without passion, you must concede that I am not doing a rash thing, a thoughtless, wilful thing, with nothing substantial behind it to justify it. [5]

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