I had, indeed, found a few friends who were willing to make along with me their nth attempt at escape, and there were always a few stout fellows willing to help.
In a trice, she sets one down in the midst of Irish rural life and scenery; prejudices and politics slip away, and one remains a willing captive as she presents an enchanted vision .
All the same I was so persevering that I at last found a few friends who declared themselves willing to help me.
Lust for the most shameful lucre seems to be the common vice of all degraded hearts: there is no infamy they are not willing to endure, if they can make it a profit.
One would blush to fear peril, one does not blush for rebelling against destiny; one is willing to die if necessary, but not to be thwarted.
If I am willing to have recourse to law in a case of robbery, why should I not appeal to this same law when my honor is attacked?
Thence follows an immediate consequence: it is, that every man being man by the same title, no one can claim for himself a right which he is not willing to recognize at the same time in another; hence the equality of rights.
God asks not gold, neither for silver, but only for love unfeigned in His people's hearts, and since the tumbler loved Him beyond measure, for this reason God was willing to accept his service.
And these, willing to obey his commandment, carried him to that place where Amile lay.
This, therefore, I owe to thee, and I acquit me of my debt by giving thee my fair daughter, so thou art willing to take her at my hand.
If this man was willing to die in my stead before the King, why then should I not slay mine own for him!
And bending above them he wept bitterly, and said-- "Hath any man heard of such father who was willing to slay his child?
I can give you good counsel, if you are willingto listen.
Day after day then I chased them -- 'course they had friends on the sly, Friends who were willing to sell them to those who were willing to buy.
Our willing workmen, strong and skilled Within our cities idle stand, And cry aloud for leave to toil.
As few merchants are willing to give this price for elephants which have not been seasoned, the Raja generally forces them on such persons as have claims on the court, who sell their elephants in the best manner they can.
The Memorandum fell to the ground by the action of England, who was not willing to stand with the other powers and compel the enforcement of the reforms demanded.
Are the Christian people of America willing that this thing shall continue?
If you are not willingto help us to attain our liberty," they said, "at least you can not compel us to enter into slavery again.
At any hour, in any age its glorious roll of martyrs would have been filled up and its blood would have ceased to flow, if it had been willing to deny the Christ and swear allegiance to the false Prophet.
He was willing to do justice and to temper it with mercy, but to be placed in the position of a servant to his people was odious to himself.
England, France and Russia, however, had the way clear before them, if they had been really in accord and seriously willing to accomplish the humanitarian mission they pretended to assume.
Barons were willingto desert their castles and Lords their manors.
The Pashas who surround the Sultan, the successors of those who deposed his uncle and his brother, applaud the atrocities, and are willing instruments in the perpetration of them.
The roads were very muddy from the recent rains, and on no other occasion could the men have marched as far, but all knew the necessity of capturing Lee's army, and all were willing to do their best.
Yes," replied a spruce young man who looked willing to let me half residential New York.
She said that she could not be my wife until Lord Haslemere and Lady Haslemere were willingto welcome her.
I know if you had been willing to see me there, you would have suggested my meeting you at the house," I went on.
But I'm willing to take it on as an extra by and by.
But these, dear maid, are not they that long for pardon and are willing to turn from sin.
Every sinner should be glad enough to part with his punishment: but no sinner was ever yet willing to part with his sin but under the promptings of God's Spirit.
That is not a bad idea; but you might try the secretaryship first, if Unwin be willing to come to terms.
And when Mollie was consulted she proved quite willing to do as they all wished.
But, all the same, he knew that he would have been willing to live in poverty until his life's end if he could only have kept her beside him.
He saw that, for some reason of her own, she was willing to tell her story.
She seemed to miss him more every day, and yet she was quite willingthat his absence should be prolonged.
I should hardly be willing for my daughter to marry a junior classical master.
Those boys are so noisy,' she continued in her ordinary manner, as though she were notwilling to discuss the subject more fully.
I was quitewilling to stay, and I’m blowed if I was worse than anybody else.
It seemed horrible and unnatural that she should be willing to throw herself into the arms of a dissolute boy, and it lowered her in her own estimation.
Why did he not ask what she was so willing to grant?
Ramsay, who was convinced that any and every woman was willing to make herself a fool with a handsome man.
My love isn’t a bauble that I am willing to give to whomever chance throws in my way.
She was quite willing that all the world should see them.
The Vicar laughed; it is one of the best traits of the country clergy that they are willing to be amused with their parishioners’ jocosity.
She had an impartial mind and saw the two sides of a question clearly enough to find little to choose between them; consequently she was able and willing to argue with equal force from either point of view.
No one could tell one day, how she would be the next; and this was peculiarly uncomfortable to a man who was willing to make the best of everything, but on the condition that he had time to get used to it.
She told her story, and after the king and queen found who she was they were very willing to have her for their daughter-in-law.
The princess was told that the little animal was to set out immediately and would put all in order at the palace, so she was willing to wait a while longer before seeing her husband's treasures.
You are our youngest, and your father would never be willing to have you go, and you would find it very different out there in the world from here, where everyone loves you and cares for you.
Barney was more than willingto do this, for it was better fun to go to the fair than to work.
She begged her lover to take her with him, and as he was willing they stole away together, with not a thought of the two children left playing down by the lake.
She quickly wiped her eyes and told him she was more than willing to go with him.
Maria would have refused this if she dared, but her father was very willing to allow it.
Daughter, you have obliged one who is not only able but willingto reward you," said the old woman.
However, he was not willing to step into the first vat, for he did not wish to become an old man; he saw no reason for stepping into the second vat, for he was already young.
However, after he had had a day to think it over he appeared as smiling and cheerful as ever, and seemed quite willing to submit to the test.
You see however difficult the thing is I am not onlywilling but able to perform it.
First you tell me you will give me your daughter for a wife if I can wear a certain ring, and then when I am willing to stand the test, you tell me the ring can not be found.
The merchant was very much grieved to hear of his daughter's death, but he felt pity for the Evil One, and as his second daughter was willing he gave her to him as a wife.
The whale was pleased at these words, but he said, "I am quite willing to help you, but I do not see how I can do so.
The good man was willing to do this, so he lent the mortar and pestle to the envious neighbor who carried them away with him.
We were willing to remunerate if certain of cure, and, knowing the dread uncertainty of the case, this noble man revealed in his offer his true magnanimity.
I took her to every physician who made her disease a specialty, going far and near to consult them, each one of whom would shake their heads in despair, yet all seeming willing to undertake her case.
Do you really believe," I said, "that Commodus is so insane about horse- racing as to be willing to put Furfur on his throne in his robes so that he can degrade himself under the name of Palus?
Her mostwilling secrecy will not be as safe as her ignorance of our fate.
I am willing to tame animals and to keep on taming animals, but I do not want to be forced to display my powers before the populace and the nobility, Senate and court.
Hercules be good to me," Tanno cried, "to get out of this cursed neighborhood I am willing even to face the horrors of the bit of road I suffered on as I came up.
I am perfectly willing to explain," laughed Bulla, looking more formidable when he smiled or laughed than when expressionless.
She said she loved Commodus so much that she was willing to save him even at the cost of her own life.
As neither could injure the other in this sort of fight, and as they were willing to humor the populace, each was careless about his guard and reckless in his attack.
If I knew the ways of secret-service men I conjectured that they would never have been willing to report the truth: that they could find no trace of me, that I had vanished utterly and completely.
Keep your own secrets as long as you are willing to work miracles for me.
And if I were free to set him free and chose to free him in that fashion, I should have to advise my friends in advance of my intentions and ask whether they were willing to lend themselves to such a proceeding.
I won't say but that if we get at him the right way, and he don't happen to have no other plans in his mind, that he might not be willing to start with you.
The Seneca would be just as willing to come and hunt for us for nothing.
The Indians were not willing to accept more than the recognized monthly pay, but Harry would not hear of it.
They are willing to deal liberally with the Utes, but not to give as much as would buy twenty hills.
At the same time we were willing to give them some provisions, and such other assistance as lay in our power.
Hayes and his third mate, some of the white traders, and twenty or so of our crew were quite willing to seize one of the whalers, and sail to Arrecifos.
Although not understanding a word that Maurice said, the native boy smiled when he saw that the white lad was willing to come with him at last.
The young priest thereupon remembered the ardent desire which Marie had expressed to spend the night in front of the Grotto, and it occurred to him that the Baron might be willing to give the necessary authorisation.
I am quite willingto think it over, but it really frightens me too much.
It was only towards evening that the Commissary was able to find a girl willing to let him have a cart on hire, and two hours later this girl fell from a loft and broke one of her ribs.
I am willing to believe,--and how your silence shows that you are beginning to recognise the disastrous consequences of your error.
In any case, like them he compounded with the century, made approaches to the world, and was willing to flatter it in order that he might possess it.
All the human degradation which till break of day swarms in the black mud of this part of Paris, enveloped the three men, giving them the horrors, and yet neither the Baron nor Gerard nor Duthil was willing to go off.
This reply made Pierre grave, for he was quite willing to admit that an opportunist code of morals, like that of the Jesuits, was inoculable and now predominated throughout the Church.
Then he gaily gave the other to understand that golden manna would presently be raining down on the press and all faithful friends and willing helpers.
We never cease to call for the investigations of all willing men.
Yes, she was willing to go off and let them drive her home; but, first of all, she must embrace Legras, who was an old friend of hers.
Are you willing that the King should be deaf and dumb to your message?
He apply'd himself diligently to this Work, and the Inhabitants attended it, being willing to forward it on Account of the Intreaties and Example of their Chief.
From India none can come, tho' the Viceroy were never so willing to furnish me.
He Answer'd, He was very willing to do it, but could not; and therefore would send Succours from Amboyna.
They are more willing to carry Arm'd Men on their Backs, in great Castles built to that purpose.
One Day making several Overtures, Tulo told him, That the King, his Brother, was willingto put an End to that tedious Seige, upon any Conditions.
The Governour being willing to make short Work of it, sent the Mandarines, with their Prisoner and Servants to the Port of Cabite, which is two Leagues from the City.
However before he gave her to him to Wife, he must reflect that she was promis'd to the King of Tydore, to whom he was not willing to administer fresh Causes of War, or to be the Occasion of interrupting that short Tranquility they enjoy'd.
Would they be able to work hard and labor for their daily bread, or be willing to encounter such toil and such danger as must be encountered by those who are sent here?
Begum did not appear at all willing to renew her connection.
I am willing to accept the armed neutrality, if they will consent to it.
That preceding the attack on Boonesborough, he was willing to take the officers of the fort, on pretense of making peace, to the Indian camp, beyond the protection of the guns of the garrison.
I'll ask God to make me willing to forgive Sallie; I can do that.
And he tells us that he is more willing to give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, than parents are to give good gifts unto their children.
Any trick he could do to draw crowds he was willing to attempt.
Are you willing to post a hundred dollars to be forfeited to the Red Cross in case you fail?
Bill may have found a man who is willing to act to help pull down the reward for him.
But the men are perfectly willing to have their accounts gone over and their tickets checked up.
The government was willing to spare him if he would earn his pardon by a full confession.
He employed the mediation of Burnet, opened a negotiation with Saint James's, declared himself willing to acquiesce in the new order of things, obtained from William a promise of protection, and promised in return to live peaceably.
His accomplices were by no means willing that his fortitude should be tried by so severe a test.
The general opinion was that the sum which the King was understood to be willing to give would be amply sufficient, [605] At last something was conceded on both sides.
They were generally willing to admit infants into the Church without sponsors and without the sign of the cross.
In truth it was because he was not disposed to part with the Test that he was willing to consent to some changes in the Liturgy.
He had been willing to be the right hand of Dundee: but he would not be ordered about by Cannon.
The Jacobites were equally willing to forget that Athol had lately fawned on William.
Those ministers William selected in such a manner as showed that he was determined not to proscribe any set of men who were willing to support his throne.
We are quite willing that, if he is guilty, he shall be punished.
Andrew Douglas, master of the Phoenix, who had on board a great quantity of meal from Scotland, was willing to share the danger and the honour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "willing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
