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Meanings of wilful child in английском

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Usage of wilful child in английском
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Watusk had the air of a wilful child called by his parent.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
2
And all this was for a girl, a mere wilful child!
Twelve Stories and a Dream
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The Prince smiled with the air of one disposed to humour a wilful child.
The Yellow Crayon
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He stood waiting for her, as a father waits for a lagging, wilful child.
Alice of Old Vincennes
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She said to herself that she was at her wits' end with the wilful child.
Christie Redfern's Troubles
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It dawned on him then that Natalie was really a child, a spoiled and wilful child.
Dangerous Days
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You are always such a wilful child, Felicia!
The Mating of Lydia
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It pleased Cornelia to become the wilful child who quarrels with its tutor's teachings, upon this point.
Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete
9
She was like a spoiled and wilful child which will neither have a thing nor let it go.
The Golden Dog
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He was like a wilful child.
Jerusalem
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But she was like a wilful child who is determined to walk alone on a high and dangerous wall.
Quin
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Like a wilful child, I had been acting as if God had but to carry out my wild schemes.
Barriers Burned Away
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Something in his voice and manner, as he left her that morning, suggested the kindly chiding of a wilful child.
West Wind Drift
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But the Squire, it seemed, was rather inclined to regard them as the whims of a spoilt and wilful child.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
15
Icarus listens to the advice with a shade of impatience, pouting a little, like a wilful child who chafes under restraint.
Van Dyck: A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the...
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Agnes endeavored to detain the wilful child, but she suddenly pulled away from her, and started like the wind for the dock.
Lewie; Or, The Bended Twig
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