Readily; willingly; used with would, or some other word expressing will.
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Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,[...], down the nave to the western door.[...]At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[...]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.
How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.