of one's own free will
Example Sentences
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"It is essential to die unreconciled," he had said, "and not of one's own free will."
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is surely better to do a thing of one's own free will than because one is forced to do it, Sir John?"
From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
When one thinks how short life is, and that one came away from it all of one’s own free will, and remembers, too, that another is suffering the pain of constant anxiety—‘true, true till death.’
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof
Really, the most unsatisfactory husband is a person who should be clung to steadily from beginning to end, for did not one marry him of one's own free will?
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von
It was not the sort of spot which one would have selected of one's own free will to sit in for any length of time.
From The Little Nugget by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
