With the million-odd tasks to be accomplished before the new ship was commissioned, her kind of cheerful willingness had been doubly appreciated.

He was older than Rachel's father, nearly seventy, slower than the others, with a good head on his shoulders and a cheerful willingness to do what she asked.

What cheerful willingness for others' sake to give up all?

His wife and children adored him, it was obvious, and his men and maids served his needs with friendly, cheerful willingness.

Like the Swiss, they combine a strong sense of national identity with a cheerful willingness to live and work outside the homeland.

Bryce wrote scathingly of the cheerful willingness of the 19th-century parties to select as their Presidential candidates men who were "intellectual pygmies," so long as they had appeal to voters.

He was redheaded and stocky, with wide-open eyes and a curl to his lips that suggested a cheerful willingness.

"Consider it done," La Forge said, with no hesitation that Akarr could see, and even a certain amount of cheerful willingness.

Indeed, much of the charm of the book resides in his cheerful willingness to hold his considerable reputation hostage to so unlikely a crusade.