The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.

Someone who cared deeply for the charming, headstrong child?

The burgomaster's daughter said a quick prayer for her headstrong child as she closed the heavy wooden door and bolted it.

Designed for the extraordinarily headstrong children whose will had outpaced the development of their rational faculties.

She was simply a child, brilliant and headstrong, but a child.

Therefore they were badly- behaved children, headstrong and arrogant, though their feelings were generous.

"A wayward child, willful and headstrong, who has close to broken our poor dear widowed mother's heart."

Yes, to you that quick, hard set of his chin is only the passing stubbornness of a headstrong child.

"Ellen, you're a wild, headstrong child," rejoined the old man, in severe tones.

As I say, she is a headstrong child and given to vagaries.