all-too-willing

Updated: May 11, 2025

Then Jemmy, opening his mouth to its widest extent, acted as conductor to an all-too-willing chorus. The noise was unbearable, and Mr. Porter said so. Pleased with the tribute, the choir re-doubled its efforts, and Mr. Porter, vociferating orders for silence, saw only too clearly the base advantage his wife had taken of his affection for his children.

W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs - Deep Waters, the Entire Collection

There were houses built of stolen corrugated iron-that cursed, hot, hideous stuff that the West has inflicted on an all-too-willing East; others of wood of stone of mud of mat of skins even of tent-cloth. Most of them were filthy. A row of kites sat on the roof of one, and in the gutter near it three gorged vultures sat on the remains of a mule.

Talbot Mundy - King of the Khyber Rifles

Out of Viola's resemblance to her brother and her disguise grows the absurd situation of Olivia's claiming her as a husband, and that of Sir Andrew taking for his unwilling duellist the all-too-willing Sebastian.

Helen Archibald Clarke - Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies