unwillingly

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Unwillingly at home, chafing for news of the show was the Commandos' boss, gay but cutlass-keen Captain the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 41-year-old second cousin of King George, great-grandson of Queen Victoria.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 representing the waning influence of the U.S. in Europe, Brace is seen partly as a throwback to the last of the Roman legionnaires in Germania.

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

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Unwillingly Ralph felt his lips twitch; he was angry with himself for giving way.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding