willinger

I was the willinger to suspend my journey thither till I heard from Harlowe-place.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

This is his carackter; and this made me willinger to owne him for my relation, when we came to talck.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

And likewise the Russes, if you would giue them a reasonable price for their wares, woulde be the willinger to buy and sell with you, and not to carie so much to Nouogrode as they doe, but woulde rather bring it to Vologda to you, both Waxe, Tallowe, Flaxe, Hempe, and all kinde of other wares fitte for our Countrey.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

These examples I haue the willinger giuen you to set foorth the nature and vse of your figure metaphore, which of any other being choisly made, is the most commendable and most common.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

I am the willinger to stay a while here, to grow better acquainted with these Maids.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 200-299 1909

Not so; but I was the willinger to tell thee, because I know it to be a true tale;

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

The Child said no man was willinger than he was for that time to come, and he would give Bob fair warning, now, never to cross his path again, for he could never rest till he had waded in his blood, for such was his nature, though he was sparing him now on account of his family, if he had one.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

The Child said no man was willinger than he was for that time to come, and he would give Bob fair warning, now, never to cross his path again, for he could never rest till he had waded in his blood, for such was his nature, though he was sparing him now on account of his family, if he had one.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

The Child said no man was willinger than he was for that time to come, and he would give Bob fair warning, now, never to cross his path again, for he could never rest till he had waded in his blood, for such was his nature, though he was sparing him now on account of his family, if he had one.

Life on the Mississippi 1870

In which three waies, I praie God, my poore children may diligently waulke: for whose sake, as nature moued, and reason required, and necessitie also somewhat compelled, I was the willinger to take these paines.

The Scholemaster 1870