He had not relished the roughness with which the other had snatched the check from him, though making allowance for the natural annoyance of one who had been betrayed into a mortifying mistake.
And the sheriff, natural enough, he don't want nothing of the kind.
Having increased his gains manyfold, he was (being quite a natural person) naturally incensed that they were not more.
After you hear the news you can look any old way and it'll be natural enough.
He must be a universal deity, to whom the most varied elements, natural phenomena and activities are subject.
A purely inductive, natural science-method has thus been followed, and hence this pamphlet is devoted simply to descriptions and to the amassing of material.
All at once he turned to me and said in his natural way: "Now tell me how you got them back?
The outer cavern, partly natural and partly hewn, was regarded architecturally as only an ante-chamber.
Then the natural extension of your inference is that Mr. Corbeck is a liar and a fraud; and that he is in conspiracy with Miss Trelawny to deceive someone or other about those lamps.
Also that the mummy, when laid on the raised portion in the bottom of the sarcophagus, seemingly made to fit the form, would lie head to the West and feet to the East, thus receiving the natural earth currents.
We know as yet so little of natural forces, that imagination need set no bounds to its flights in considering the possibilities of the future.
It was of some yellow-brown substance of the dominating colour effect of Mexican onyx, which it resembled in many ways, excepting that the natural pattern of its convolutions was less marked.
Chapter II Strange Instructions Superintendent Dolan went quietly to the door; by a sort of natural understanding he had taken possession of affairs in the room.
I have exhausted all human and natural possibilities of the case, and am beginning to fall back on superhuman and supernatural possibilities.
Then he went on: "There is a secret place in this house, a cave, natural originally but finished by labour, underneath this house.
Then with both hands he raised the ample robe, and laid it across the arms which she extended in a natural impulse.
Round the neck it was delicately embroidered in pure gold with tiny sprays of sycamore; and round the feet, similarly worked, was an endless line of lotus plants of unequal height, and with all the graceful abandon of natural growth.
So certain was this that no one could be found to stop in the houses of the sick, and relations, as if in the natural course of events, seem to die all together.
The natural instinct of man to get his fun at his neighbour's expense meets with wholesome rebuffs in the outer world," said the Professor, "but in the family it has its chance.
And think of the wild flowers one may gather by the wayside in some forest track, or among the mountain passes; but in these prim alleys whatnatural thing can one know?
As for taking enfeeblement as a natural dispensation, she would as soon regard delirium tremens in that light.
Mere unaided natural selection obviously cannot be trusted to produce a fine race.
I felt like the poor sapling in the cranny, that had just the same natural impetus of healthy growth as all the others, but was forced to become twisted, and crooked, and stunted and wretched.
If you had not this unreasonable objection to what is really a woman's natural destiny, the difficulty would not exist.
It was utterly unfair to thrust that natural penalty of prejudice and of self-neglect on to the shoulders of others.
Ask for the possible and natural harvest of a woman's career, and see if you don't get it.
He was anxious to have the South take her place as a great manufacturing community, for which her naturalresources of iron and coal and her great water power gave her such advantages.
He must have, in perfection, the eye and the voice which are the only and natural avenues by which one human soul can enter into and subdue another.
I once pointed out to a friend a ludicrous resemblance between his countenance and expression and that of one of the tortoises in the illustrations of one of Agassiz's works on natural history.
There was a natural and very strong dread of the Confessional.
He was an accomplished naturalist for his age and time, and had a considerable library of works on natural history.
Aided by a natural shrewdness and sense, he got along pretty well.
There I met Sir John Lubbock, now Baron Avebury, famous for his writings on financial questions and on Natural History, especially for his observations of the habits of ants.
But the summons came for him when his eye was not dimmed nor his natural force abated.
They said that nothing could restore silver to its old value as compared with gold; that its fall was owing to natural causes, chiefly to the increased production.
The appeal to private judgment as against unquestioning belief was a natural result of the revival of learning as well as of spiritual quickening.
This proceeded partly from necessity, partly from thenatural disposition of his mind.
On the one hand, a gallant young monarch, seconded by a generous nobility and followed by subjects to whose natural impetuosity indignation at the opposition which they had encountered added new force, contended for victory and honor.
So far as information is available to us, it would seem that Pythagoras associated his scheme of things celestial with a number of preposterous notions in natural philosophy.
Instead of giving herself up to such lamentations as were natural to a woman so remarkable for her maternal tenderness, she discovered all the foresight and exerted all the activity of a consummate politician.
After this natural progress of events, it cannot be doubted that the Reformation has been unfavorable to the fine arts, and has very much restrained the exercise of them.
His face," wrote the French ambassador, "is dwindled to half its natural size.
Pedro de Soto urged the continuance of the war, to avert the danger of a papal-French combination, which would be the natural result of Paul's indignation at a compromise with heretics.
The collections of butterflies are now transferred to the vast and sumptuous central hall of the new pavilion devoted to natural history.
Buffon's natural history cabinet, and whose delicate grey wood carvings made such a suitable framework for the admirable butterfly collections brought from every country.
I was helped by the very wonder of some of the conditions that came back to me--those that used to seem as natural as sunshine in a fine climate.
She was in the most natural way in the world one of the oddest apparitions, but that the particular means to such an end COULD be natural was an inference difficult to make.
Her hair was a chestnut brown; her complexion was fair; and, to conclude all, she had a natural gentility which surprised all who beheld her.
There was a natural antipathy of temperament between the two boys; for Tom was an excellent bovine lad, and Philip was sensitive, and suffered acute pain when the other blurted out offensive things.
And to touch is the most natural of human instincts.
A temporary loss of temper was a natural consequence, and having ridden in advance for about half a mile, I returned and ordered a retreat.
On the ridge before we descended into this vale the view was magnificent, as two lofty crags formed a natural frame for the picture within.
Of course there was only one method of travelling upon this route with the gipsy-van: this was to avoid it altogether, but to keep upon the natural soil on the side of the newly-made level.
Some of the hill-tops exposed a smooth natural pavement where the rain had washed away all soluble portions and left the bare foundation cracked in small divisions as though artificially inlaid.
From natural politeness they invariably rose as we passed by, and at one place I was immediately furnished with a string that I might measure a large vine-stem which during summer must afford a dense shade.
This work only requires money, and the inhabitants, without further assistance than loans secured by a water-rate upon the district, will rapidly develop the natural supply.
There is no reason why the wild olive should not be grafted in its natural position the same as the caroub.
It comes as natural to his old students to say when they meet, "What a lecturer Tait was!
Close to the door of the natural philosophy room is a window that in my memory will ever be sacred to a janitor.
He will never be that so long as Tait is in thenatural philosophy chair.
The author, on his side, warns me that it is not philosophy, that it is not metaphysics, that it is not natural science.
He is the enslaver of youth, not by the literary artifices of presentation, but by the natural glamour of his own temperament.
As to alarm, I pointed out that fear is natural to man, and even salutary.
Yet the older methods of meetingnatural forces demanded intelligence too; an equally fine readiness of wits.
It is natural that the novelist should doubt his ability to cope with his task.
Human ingenuity has devised better means to meet the dangers of natural forces.
I am a disciplined man, and I have a natural indulgence for the weaknesses of human institutions; but I will own that at times I have regretted their--how shall I say it?
She could not hope to improve her frontier in that way, and economically she had no need of Galicia, a province whose natural resources were undeveloped and whose salt mines did not arouse her cupidity because she had salt mines of her own.
What is natural about it is just its fineness, an abiding sense of the intangible, ever-present, right.
Had he given her any reason for caring, beyond thenatural maternal instinct which is in all motherhood?
Stayed out in the hills--and that ain't natural for a young city feller, is it?
He used to be full of it himself, and he used to consider that the natural form of companionship.
Because horses are horses, and pigs are pigs; it's natural for horses to shy at them.
In her heart there was just that little soreness natural to a woman over fifty, whose husband has a niece.
This craving and roving was as much part of him as his eyes and hands, as overwhelming and natural a longing as his hunger for work, or his need of the peace that Sylvia gave, and alone could give him.
She knew the world pretty well, and was not amazed by extraordinary accidents; but as she herself continued to be an example of her faith: we must presume it natural that her delusion should cling to her.
The next instant her natural courage restored her.
Sir Franks, with a gentlemanly delicacy natural to all lovers of a smooth world, begged him to see the main and the insurmountable objection.
She had also, or she now thought it, remarked that when Mr. George had been spoken of casually, the Countess had not looked a natural look.
Fly where human lips and noses are not scornfully distorted, and get thee a new skin, and grow and attain to thy natural height in a more genial sphere!
Dorothy put it with great natural earnestness, and they all laughed aloud.
From higher ground it was naturalthat the remaining sister should take a bolder flight.
What farther she thought she did not say, but she was a woman who looked to natural gifts more than the gifts of accidents; and Evan's chance stood high with her then.
Why, my dear,' the landlady turned to her, 'it seems natural to you to be mistress where you go.
On his own deck, Dyck watched the progress of the battle with the joy of a natural fighter.
In such spare time as he had, he wandered over the Island with eager, open eyes, marvelling at its wonders and enjoying its natural beauties with rare delight.
Nance very soon came to accept Tom's rough treatment as natural from a big fellow of fourteen to a small girl of eight, and she bore it stoically and hated him the harder.
But his natural truculence, and his not altogether unnatural exultation at the frustration of these plans for his own upsetting, overcame all else.
And so she restrained the natural violence of her temper, which would have run to rocks and bodily injury, and waited in the bracken till Nance came stumbling along in the half-light.
It was a large, low, natural rock chamber, and all round the walls were black slits which might mean it passages leading on into the bowels of the island.
It was a tiny natural chamber in the sharp slope of the hill.
His left arm and the lantern went up with the natural instinct of defence.
The reason why simple and natural people readily understand Jesus is that in the kind of life they live the primal emotions are supreme.
And out of the pity grows love, for love is the natural end of pity; and the magnanimity of love, overleaping moral values, fixes only on the fact of suffering that appeals for succour, misery that cries for help.
The men and women of loving disposition, who have wrought many little acts of kindness which were to them so natural and simple that they do not so much as recollect them, find themselves mysteriously selected for infinite rewards.
The simple and natural people understood Jesus; they always do.
These are natural fears, and they are not altogether the fears of weak and timid men.
Let me examine my own natural tendencies, and I am soon made aware of how impossible it is to love all my fellow men.
In this there is nothing unusual, for man is a natural worshipper of heroes.
And yet it was less a conscious aim, than the natural working out of His own character.
Therefore He made His appeal to simple and natural people, saying that what was hidden from the wise and prudent, was revealed to babes.
Miss Mack's intense love of nature is reflected in all her books, and her readers, both young and old, are at once attracted by the natural ring of her work.
The local colouring is distinctly good; the children are alive, and talk like real children; the incidents are natural and well described.
Five specially selected Australian Landscapes in panels, each measuring 60 inches by 36 inches, reproduced in natural colours.
There seemed something quixotic in that; it did not seem natural he should have any sympathy with this man who not only had Ruth's love, but was endangering her whole life.
But Ruth did not say whether the town had looked natural or not.
And a light that seemed apart from natural things was formed by the way the street lights grew pale in the faint light of coming day.
And yet she could go on and appear about the same; if she seemed a little queer she was sure it was attributed tonatural feeling about her dearest friend's wedding--to emotion, excitement.
It was natural to him; it had been once, it could be again.
It did not seem a thing she could speak of; but as she looked at Deane, his mouth more natural now, but the suggestion of pain left there, she had a sudden new sense of all that Deane had done for her.
Ruth was natural now--just Ruth, he told himself, and felt that talking to Deane had done her good.
They could settle into a more natural order of things with her not there.
And yet, looking at it in any but the Freeport way, it was the most natural thing in the world that Cora should have asked what she did.
He was a man of eminent natural abilities to which was added a liberal education.
His natural powers flashed with supernatural glints, or rather, with excessive spiritual light, by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Withal the Lord has blessed this celebrated country with rare natural advantages for producing an indomitable and resourceful race.
The surface is mostly mountainous and rugged, presenting to the eye natural scenery, which for beauty and magnificence can scarcely be surpassed.
He had had but six months' common school education, but, possessing considerable natural ability, he had to some degree remedied his deficiencies in this particular.
It is a natural endowment, a spiritual control, an unseen influence, and a power outside of our ability to account for.
I have heard him deliver lectures on a great variety of scientific subjects,--on political economy, theology, and natural philosophy.
James was above the medium height, very thin and spare, blonde complexion, light hair and blue eyes--a natural negative organization.
The engraver who reproduced it has not altered one line or mark; yet this man in his natural condition could not draw the outline of a barn.
We cannot restrain a feeling of suddenness and incompleteness and a natural pang of wonder and regret for a life so richly and so vitally endowed thus cut off in its prime.
He looks old and haggard, but has regained his natural bearing and expression.
It seemed a reflection upon herself, Beatty's mother, as lacking in softness andnatural feeling.
Daphne, as soon as he was gone, allowed herself the natural attitude that fitted her thoughts.
The Celtic and Latin strains that were mingled in her, their naturalsympathies and repulsions, which had been indistinct in the girl, overlaid by the deposits of the current American world, were becoming dominant in the woman.
On the journey he had put it down just to a natural and very surprising impudence.
If she had seen him first in his naturalenvironment she would have been on her guard; she would have realized what it meant to marry a man who could help her own ideals and ambitions so little.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
