unwillingly

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Unwillingly taking the boy she had registered as Louise, she made no effort to change his legal name, instead began a long and dusty march from bureaucrat to bureaucrat, seeking restitution of her daughter.

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Unwillingly, a would-be playwright laid aside his pen.

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Unwillingly, however, the two championship contenders gave way to a first-time winner by the time the checkers waved in the Lites main event.

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Unwillingly the reader commences to play put-and-take, acknowledging a score for the author after an especially well-put sentence, taking a point away when a mannerism becomes obvious or the author's pride of word shows through.

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Unwillingly Ralph turned away from the splendid, awful sight "What's that?"

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding