Example Sentences

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I'd as soon sleep in a hearse, and I shall put in some brass bedsteads and hair mattresses, and mabby I shall furnish Gusty's room with willer work.

From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Holmes, Mary Jane

And because in the willer himself there is suffering, because he cannot will backwards—thus was Willing itself, and all life, claimed—to be penalty!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

If any well willer will imitate him in so praiseworthie a worke for the two other regions, we will be glad to further his endeuour with all the helpes we may.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror by Holinshed, Raphael

That could be fixed up 'n' painted, 'n' that willer tree; 'twouldn't hurt it ter give it a good preunin'.

From Randy and Her Friends by Brooks, Amy

"Sure!" said Lizzie proudly, "married me jest like enny swell; got me a dimon ring an' a silk lined suit an' a willer plume an everythin'."

From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston