What other people call wilfulness is really sensitiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calvary Alley] Reference

Nor is that hastily to be interpreted obstinacy or wilfulness, which is the natural product of their age or temper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 71-80] Reference

What the unknowing called wilfulness was simply natural independence, which she asserted whenever occasion demanded it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parrot & Co.] Reference

Or was it that thou, in wilfulness of mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference

But, in wilfulness, you pursued me to your ruin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables From Nature] Reference

"But, Lulu, your wilfulness is a cause of great anxiety to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie's New Relations] Reference

It could lead to inequality or wilfulness, which is inadmissible, "the court said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prague Monitor] Reference

This wilfulness, first asserted in small things, grew and grew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

With an inflamed and spiteful wilfulness, I stamped my feet with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

Fortunately Lucy, in spite of her wilfulness, was not self-conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference

My own sons were prone to wilfulness and despised me because I am old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

Each one, while it cut deeply, seemed to aggravate him to greater wilfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

If we have lost God's bright and happy presence by our wilfulness, what then?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

You will think I mistake here; but I don't mean she has not wilfulness enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference

By what right did he lecture her or hold her responsible for Sylvia's wilfulness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

Lucy Martin had been an odd little girl, full of fire and passion and wilfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference

"Wilt thou reproach me, Ta-user, for my son's wilfulness?" was his tactless reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Usually gentle and patient with his baby wilfulness, her heart recoiled at the deed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

You told me once that I would bring disaster upon myself by my obstinate wilfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

"'Twas all my wilfulness -- I came hither seeking you," I answered, and hung my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference

O-liver's wild oats and wilfulness cut him off, he ruled, from parental consideration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

God's loving purpose for the salvation of the world has been marred by man's wilfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it?] Reference

Beethoven's wilfulness in persistently transgressing certain established rules of composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

Already I begin to see signs of the same restlessness and wilfulness that has spoiled the other girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Hill House] Reference

Elizabeth looked after him, and pondered, with a quivering lip, on the wilfulness of the refusal to promise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference

Either ignorance or wilfulness kept her from the light, and coldly bidding him good night, she left the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

The wilfulness of man in refusing to believe cannot alter that intention though it spoils the completion of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it?] Reference

From him she went to live with a man of wealth; but her extravagance and wilfulness induced him to forego her company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference

He knew me, I am certain of it, and putting his little arms round my neck, he seemed to ask pardon for his wilfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference

Won't there be plenty of houris there, with all their beauty and virtue, but without their extravagance and wilfulness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

John was wise enough to perceive the wilfulness that prompted this reply, and he deftly changed the subject of conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference

But the caprice and wilfulness which marked his public playing are shown equally in his relations with people in everyday life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

Aileen Armagh, who never in all her wilfulness and love of romance had given man or boy occasion to use either her name or her lightly!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference