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    1. Nevertheless, since we have to suspect the local authorities are completely aware of what is going on but may be suffering from wilful blindness, to approach them with our suspicions might place ourselves in an even more vulnerable position than we are in already


    2. Were these words a sign of wilful complacency or a genuine attempt to reassure?


    3. Yet it would be wilful blindness to ignore the fact that “things” are not looking particularly good at the present time


    4. 8 An horse not broken becomes headstrong, and a child left to himself will be wilful


    5. When the failure is with full knowledge of the duty and an intention to perform it, the omission is wilful


    6. wilful, it will offer no assistance to the author and accept no liability on


    7. The wilful child grew into a vexatious young teenager, unappreciative of parental efforts to transform her into a hard-working consolation and support for their old age


    8. first used by Mary Anne Warren) is the wilful intent to


    9. Evil here is not necessarily the wilful act of doing wrong, but instead the knowledge or self-realization of the


    10. to happen, then he should be tried in court for wilful misuse of a Public Office –

    11. There is still a vast amount of improvidence, wilful poverty, drunkenness, impurity, and Sabbath-breaking in the land which is greatly to be regretted


    12. No matter what the origin of the species, the same basic characteristics and general failures are always arrived at: The worshipping of Schmold, the building of and keeping clean of meaningless structures, the wilful ignorance of all things that are not Greeg centric, the sexual coverings


    13. Wild and wanton wilful ways,


    14. Believe me I am not wilful; I am only petrified


    15. By every wilful sin we have in effect said, We will not have this man to reign over us; And who is the Lord, that we should obey his voice? And thus have we reproached the Lord, and cast his law behind our backs


    16. regarded them from the charge of wilful fraud in


    17. Diaries of a wilful child,


    18. I, having vainly begged the wilful girl to rise and remove her wet things, left him preaching and her shivering, and betook myself to bed with little Hareton, who slept as fast as if every one had been sleeping round him


    19. hostile; but next day beheld me on the road to Wuthering Heights, by the side of my wilful young mistress's pony


    20. In this cosey state of mind we came to the verdict Wilful Murder

    21. An error I readily forgive, but wilful negligence or forgetfulness, never


    22. He was pleasantly conscious that the bosom which he saw rise and fall slowly beneath him rose and fell at that moment for him, that the laughter and fragrance and wilful glances were his tribute


    23. He has but one fault, he is somewhat wilful; but really, on referring for the moment to what he said, do you truly believe that Mithridates used these precautions, and that these precautions were efficacious?"


    24. Proud and wilful as of old, she had brought those qualities into such subjection to her beauty that it was impossible and out of nature—or I thought so—to separate them from her beauty


    25. Certainly, as he had himself owned, the reputed son of Major Cavalcanti was a wilful fellow


    26. still, bending, suspending, with wilful eyes


    27. The coroner's jury brought in the obvious "Wilful Murder," but the parties remained as unknown as ever


    28. 'They are proud and wilful,


    29. I, having vainly begged the wilful girl to rise and remove her wet things, left him preaching and her shivering, and betook myself to bed with little Hareton, who slept as fast as if everyone had been sleeping round him


    30. the side of my wilful young mistress’s pony

    31. But you have now shewn me that you can be wilful and perverse; that you can and will decide for yourself, without any consideration or deference for those who have surely some right to guide you, without even asking their advice


    32. The coroner's jury brought in the obvious Wilful Murder, but the parties remained as unknown as ever


    33. As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son of Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the command of God—never mind now what that command was, or how conveyed—which he found a hard command


    34. Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature


    35. Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a colour as the visible absence of colour; and at the same time the concrete of all colours; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows—a colourless, all-colour of atheism from which we shrink? And when we consider that other theory of the natural philosophers, that all other earthly hues—every stately or lovely emblazoning—the sweet tinges of sunset skies and woods; yea, and the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls; all these are but subtile deceits, not actually inherent in substances, but only laid on from without; so that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within; and when we proceed further, and consider that the mystical cosmetic which produces every one of her hues, the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colourless in itself, and if operating without medium upon matter, would touch all objects, even tulips and roses, with its own blank tinge—pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper; and like wilful travellers in Lapland, who refuse to wear coloured and colouring glasses upon their eyes, so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him


    36. Again, it is very often observed that, if the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts, not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of destruction to his pursuers; nor is it without conveying some eloquent indication of his character, that upon being attacked he will frequently open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for several consecutive minutes


    37. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon's wisdom yet


    38. Does he not say he will not strike his spars to any gale? Has he not dashed his heavenly quadrant? and in these same perilous seas, gropes he not his way by mere dead reckoning of the error-abounding log? and in this very Typhoon, did he not swear that he would have no lightning-rods? But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him?—Yes, it would make him the wilful murderer of thirty men and more, if this ship come to any deadly harm; and come to deadly harm, my soul swears this ship will, if Ahab have his way


    39. That glad, happy air, that winsome sky, did at last stroke and caress him; the step-mother world, so long cruel—forbidding—now threw affectionate arms round his stubborn neck, and did seem to joyously sob over him, as if over one, that however wilful and erring, she could yet find it in her heart to save and to bless


    40. What had once been silly or amusing was gruesome, now; it was death peering through a wilful mask of life

    41. Both my temptations and my sins, my wilful


    42. wilful seeker after suffering


    43. Thirdly: ‘The president, in his summing up, contrary to the direct decree of section 1, statute 801, of the criminal code, omitted to inform the jury what the judicial points are that constitute guilt; and did not mention that having admitted the fact of Maslova having administered the poison to Smelkoff, the jury had a right not to impute the guilt of murder to her, since the proofs of wilful intent to deprive Smelkoff of life were absent, and only to pronounce her guilty of carelessness resulting in the death of the merchant, which she did not desire


    44. These two errors, these wilful, wanton aberrations from established policy, are the true causes of all our misfortunes


    45. I do not attribute any wilful misstatement to him, but consider it the effect of inadvertency or mistake


    46. The irregular power of the House, exerted in coughing and scraping, will put an end to the harangue of the most wilful speaker


    47. Sir, there is no doubt of the fact that by mistake, sometimes perhaps by wilful misconduct, on the part of officers engaged in the search, such a thing may happen


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