“On her fifteenth birthday she had stupidly agreed to jump off a branch of a willow tree over a shallow ravine some ten feet below on a dare.”

“I enclose you holy willie for the sake of giving you a little further information of the affair than Mr. Creech could do.”

“But George Cruikshank has done with willie wauchts as with bird's-eye and killikinick.”

“For Burns believed in his own mind that these men, holy willie and the crew he typified, were thoroughly dishonest.”

“This successful woodenware and willowware merchant was a dedicated philanthropist.”

“Not unless there's a mortgage company that takes down payments in sixties Superhero comic books and Great Aunt Martha's willowware.”

“They make a nice antidote to the Anglophobia of the breakfast rooms, where a persuasive case is made for polished mahogany, willowware and crustless toast.”

“Something about the thought of taking charge of that little piece of life gave him the willies.”

“It was an oil landscape of a large mansion in the distance framed by oak trees and weeping willows.”

“Out of curiosity, he glanced back at his rear view mirror, and felt relieved to see nothing but the dusty little trail framed by weeping willows.”

“In addition to the oaks, the city lost wax myrtles, hackberries, weeping willows and magnolias.”