And Claudia was entirely too self-willed and high-spirited to submit to either insult or degradation.
She said that God had willed it so; and there was a prayer in her heart that the years of her loneliness might be few.
The day had willed the death even of this bent old man, she thought.
Why must the heart be so imperious and self-willed in these matters?
But he willed it not; he folded up his will and put it aside; he would rather yield his inclinations to hers, and passively close his fingers while he yielded.
Well, his life had been an unhappy life; love free and openly he had never tasted but once, but a law higher than the law of the land had willed against that love, and he had subserved to custom.
He took her away from you because he raised her as he has willed my cousin, his wife, to subserve to him.
It was difficult, and she was a weak willed person.
She loved Jean Baptiste, but she was not a strong willed person by nature, training or disposition.
The rest of her story was written on her wrinkled face, where the strong traits of a self-willed youth were deeply graven.
When I first saw you on the terrace at Shepheard's, I willed you to look at me, and you did look.
Since fate has really willed it, then to my fate I bow.
It was the strongest defiance of the morality taught by the Church, therefore one of the highest qualifications for an iron-willed magician.
Yet nigh him Deiophontes stood; the shaft Into his left eye plunged, passed through the ball, And out through his right ear, because the Fates Whither they willed thrust on the bitter barbs.
Meet it is to do the will Of the Immortals: yea, to Achilles too, Though the Immortals willed it not, ourselves Must render honour grateful to the dead.
Writing of this period about ten years later Komensky says: "God willed it that, not only through the lamentable war, but also through the plague that spread throughout the country, great slaughter took place.
Fate willed it that he was only able to make isolated attempts at establishing his new system of education in various countries and without continuity.
Thus grief alike and gladness from the seed of Adam spring, Since He willed to be Son of Adam, Whose praises the angels sing.
Twas Love bade her claim her right; And fulfilled was the wish of Lippaut, and naught of his bliss should fail, Since God had willed that his daughter henceforth as his queen he hail!
The chap who drew the line was behind him--behind, mind you--and he willed him where to go.
Heaven has also willed that they should propose to me to play this part--do you know whom?
Why has fatewilled that your repentance should be so late?
But into the land came an evil and a pagan knight, the knight of the Dragon, and he willed that all should scorn and despise the good Christ, and should turn to the old gods of the standing stones and the oaken groves.
Suddenly, as he spoke, the tall grey form of Merlin took shape before them, for so great and marvellous was the power of this wizard, that he could come and go unseen, except when he willed that men should see him.
Certes,' said Sir Bors, 'I ween that God willed that we should slay so many, for they must have done great evil.
The girls had their father's handsome features, but in their skin there ran a dusky tinge, hinting of other than pure Saxon blood; and they were every whit as haughtily self-willed as he was.
I never saw children so troublesome and self-willed in all my life, Godfrey," she said to her brother.
The time went on; three years of it; Captain Monk had fully settled down in his ancestral home, and the neighbours had learnt what a domineering, self-willed man he was.
He lately willed his little property to her, as a slight compensation for her care.
If the Mother willed to tell its contents, she would tell.
If anybody should be, then, so ill-willed towards us and so lamentably ignorant of spiritual truth himself as to seek to exercise the power of malicious suggestion against us, I pity the person who tries to do it.
If, then, we will to use the Infinite Spirit as a spirit of guidance, we shall find that the fact is as we have willed it; and in doing this we are still making use of our own supreme principle.
She lay there half naked, showing her white flowerlike skin, and her mother had to cover her up with the bedclothes, which she had thrust aside with her self-willed little fists.
But Heaven had willed it otherwise, and it was better for both.
It was wonderful how submissive and grateful that strong-willed man had become under womanly influences.
Thus time wore on, till Mrs. Mason had become a dashing performer on the piano, for she practiced day and night on the accomplishments that she willed to master, and in every thing made up for deficiencies by audacious self-possession.
She was minded to be revenged on him, and so the shaft contained in her piercing jest had likewise hit those she willed not to injure.
But I firmly believe that the good God willed that we should love one another, and so I am content.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "willed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
