half-wilfully

Updated: May 11, 2025

A little daughter half-playfully and half-wilfully, announced her intention to follow her own pleasure in a certain case. "Milicent is a Hedonist," said the guest, and the Oxford scholar brought Aristippus and Epicurus into odd conjunction with a Mississippi Valley breakfast-table. He laid aside his white woollen suit, but his attire remained unconventional, not to say outré.

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

Dear Ruth, I do not know if you have thought of returning to Sabines. . . . So much handier. . . ." Ruth, half-wilfully, refused to think of returning to Sabines. But if Tatty fussed, the Cordery lads made more than recompense for her fussing. From the hour when, at supper-time, Sir Oliver led Miss Josselin into the kitchen, his bride affianced, all discord ceased between these young men.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Lady Good-for-Nothing : A Man's Portrait of a Woman