"Strong-willed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have a magical power; little by little they draw into their clutches even strong-willed people. At one time father and I lived simply, not in a rich style, but now you see how! It is something monstrous," she said, shrugging her shoulders; "we spend up to twenty thousand a year! In ...
— The Chorus Girl and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... perhaps giving way to romantic sentiment, but he was sorry for the girl and thought her Daly's victim. The fellow was handsome and must have charm, since he had been able to influence Carmen, who was strong-willed and clever. ...
— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss
... was probably confined to the more intelligent. For the greater part these ignorant but stubborn and strong-willed frontiersmen were moved by a bitter hatred of "abolitionism," because the word had now been used for half a century by partisans high and low—Governors, Senators, Presidents—as a term of opprobrium and a synonym of crime. With these as fathers ...
— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay
... man's struggle against savage nature and humanity, and of a beautiful girl's regeneration from a spoiled child of wealth into a courageous strong-willed woman. ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... he was strong-willed, we know; for his tightly compressed lips held back the blood, ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester
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