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Awful though it may be, The Demonologist is a case study in self-willed delusion.

The uniform is the man, and the man is a self-willed marvel who will not be denied.

A self-willed marvel, he was not even a natural athlete or much of an extrovert.

A self-willed chaos to familiar routines and associations, an involuntary revisiting of dead hours and buried sensations.

It is obvious from this that the prophet believed evil to be a human weakness with man as an active and self-willed agent.

I was arrogant and self-willed; I loved display, and above all, I threw all control far from me.

Yes, he would like a little bit of self-willed penance, but it is much better for him to submit, bodily and mentally.

For his old father, too, thought that no maiden could refuse to love his bonny self-willed son.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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