Self-willed

Usage examples of headstrong.

In another December, north of Bedford, in Buckden, Suffolk, hero of the battlefield and the tiltyard, victor of many a bedchamber, had been defeated, outmanoeuvred by a headstrong woman and a group of peasants.

He reminded the assembly of the evils which Rome had endured from the vices of headstrong and capricious youths, congratulated them on the election of a virtuous and experienced senator, and, with a manly, though perhaps a selfish, freedom, exhorted Tacitus to remember the reasons of his elevation, and to seek a successor, not in his own family, but in the republic.

Besides, I was no longer at that headstrong age which only knows one kind of satisfaction, that of the sword.

He went on to tell me his story, talking softly but evenly at first, when the going was easier, when it was the good part, the happy part about his college years, when he was a headstrong young man in love with a girl named Gabriella Vargas.

So great is the headstrong power of the finest metaphors, that an author may be incommoded by one that does his business for him handsomely, as a king may suffer the oppression of a powerful ally.

It amused her to invent a scheme for managing the headstrong talkers, and also let off a certain spirit of mischief which in some of these nervous girls shows itself in much more questionable forms.

Andre Dolfin, a man sixty years of age, strict, headstrong, and ignorant.

She'd been headstrong, that one, with the unproved wisdom and brazenness of youth.

While on the other hand the Rime Islers, including the crusty and measuredly friendly Groniger, found it a good thing, indicative that these wild allies and would-be neighbors, questionable protégés of those headstrong freewomen Cif and Afreyt, were settling down nicely into law-abiding and hardheaded island ways.

Lord Clivers tells me that forty years ago Rubber Coleman was headstrong, sharp of purpose, and quick on the trigger.

If you were headstrong, and a creature of whims, and you'd just beaten, strangled, and decapitated another babe just for the hell of it, where would you head for?

From childhood, Annette, her oldest, had been the headstrong one, quietly determined to chart her own course, quick to rebel against rules and motherly advice.

Our hearts encircle the mother, for she has sleepless nights, and gnashes her teeth and wrings her hands over the headstrong nature of the daughter she's charged to instruct!

Then there are his mind-boggling headbutts, which usually finish off even the most headstrong opponents.

Later he married his Maui sweetheart, a fine Hawaiian woman, and they had a pert daughter, but she was a headstrong girl who liked to do as she wished, and at the age of nineteen she married a Chinese farmer named Ching, so that her daughter who went by the name of Mae Forbes was really Ching Lan Tsin, Perfect Flower Ching, and her marriage to Whipple Hoxworth was the first example of an Oriental, or part-Oriental, in her case, marrying into a major island family.