"I know you like him the best," said her cousin wilfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference

Acts such as wilfully distorting your chart figures and preventing people from linking to specific blog entries are highly unbecoming.    From Wordnik.com.  [April Figures Show Slight Dip] Reference

The UK Government currently only names companies that "wilfully" disregard the legislation.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

They also argued that Kasab was not a fugitive as he was not "wilfully" avoiding the Pakistani court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference

She only tossed her head wilfully and did not answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

How could he wilfully distort facts in this barefaced way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

No girl can afford to wilfully bring upon herself the criticism of bad manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

For some days she was cold and indifferent, wilfully blind and devoid of memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

"Oh, I know I always make an impression," said Evelyn, wilfully misunderstanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucile Triumphant] Reference

We order her to 'heave to,' which order is wilfully or unwittingly misunderstood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

The number of men who would wilfully injure their country has never been large in any age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

No one could suspect him of wilfully neglecting his duty, or acting the part of dishonour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference

It is always a dangerous experiment to wilfully test affection, besides being often a cruel one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship] Reference

"Floyd," she cried passionately, "I think I would die before I would wilfully hurt your feelings!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

They have brought the prophets and prophecy into bad repute by ignorantly or wilfully interpreting the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

He had been thinking himself the only person in fault for being wilfully absent, but it was worse and worse!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference

It will be necessary therefore somewhat wilfully to exaggerate an analogy in order to see how Germans may feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

Later I learned that he had tried to have the Visayan woman go with him, but that she had wilfully refused to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference

In this case the owner would be, however, more subject to what may be called "a crooked fate" than wilfully "wrong.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Palmistry for All] Reference

That would have made it tougher for folks to -- wilfully or not -- misrepresent his Friday speech as an endorsement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right wing's latest falsehood: Obama "voted present" on Cordoba House] Reference

Life was the special gift of Heaven, and could not be wilfully destroyed without committing a crime against the gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

It fell to my lot to cross swords with the chevalier, and I cannot be sure that he did it wilfully, yet so it seemed to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

The person who wilfully leaves the watch, or neglects it, is to be reported to the magistrate and punished as the case merits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

They can surely scarcely be made except when we wilfully blind ourselves and imagine that our enemies do not share our humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference