Under the nose may face on or faces takes care of a matter wilfully, does not have to replace the grinding wheel piece then to resharpen the bevel edge.
He writhed under the jokes, practical and otherwise, which were perpetually made at his expense, and yet never ceased, it seemed wilfully, to expose himself to them.
Twelve of the 15 council members of the philosophy faculty decided she had “systematically and wilfully” presented other people's ideas as her own in her dissertation on “Person and Conscience”.
I confess that I—wilfully did not undo the door the first time she knocked—but—I should have unfastened it the second—if I had not thought you had gone to do it yourself.
Clym in a disturbed voice related to her his visit to Susan Nunsuch's boy, the revelation he had made, and what had resulted from his charging Eustacia with having wilfully and heartlessly done the deed.