Will-on meaning

The events which helped the disgraced officer of August 1795 to impose his will on France in November 1799 now claim our attention.

Since the death of Mirabeau no one had appeared who could strike the happy mean and enforce his will on the extremes on either side.

- Sacrificial Scene over a small skull-cap and will on a Seal from Gezer.

It was not the good fortune of Johnston to acquire the prestige which so much assisted Lee and Jackson, nor indeed did he possess the power of enforcing his will on others in the same degree, but his methods were exact, his strategy calm and balanced, and, if he showed himself less daring than his comrades, he was unsurpassed in steadiness.

By a codicil added to his will on the 17th of March 1838 Talleyrand left his memoirs and papers to the duchess of Dino and to M.