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How could she, bright freed creature, hungering after the long withheld joyousness of existence, and overwilling to delude herself into the belief that every shadow was a ray of sunlight?
The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896
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Nicholas was not overwilling to obey the person whom he had just called low, but he felt considerable curiosity as to whether the man was really his uncle, and this decided him to comply with his request.
Frank and Fearless or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent Horatio Alger 1865
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Northern Italy there is scarce a village that has not its tradition of him, its _sedia, rocca, spelonca, _ or _torre di Dante_; and what between the patriotic complaisance of some biographers overwilling to gratify as many provincial vanities as possible, and the pettishness of others anxious only to snub them, the confusion becomes hopeless. [
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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