Example Sentences

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A little daughter half-playfully and half-wilfully, announced her intention to follow her own pleasure in a certain case.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall

Ruth, half-wilfully, refused to think of returning to Sabines.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir