That unnatural light above, and this deep tranquillity below, which surpasses an ordinary cairn have already driven me to my aves.
He that would be greater than his kind, and illustrious by unnatural expedients, must debase others to attain his end.
The unnatural opening in the heavens was shut, and, at short intervals, those fearful wheelings of the aërial squadrons were drawing nearer.
A dull unnatural light preceded the winds, and notwithstanding the previous darkness, the nature of the accident was fully apparent to all.
On the 5th of May the provincial congress pronounced Gage "an unnatural and inveterate enemy",[389] and issued a precept for a new congress to convene.
Only in those gusts of unnatural feeling, those spasms of repugnance born of her misery, was she in heart away from the child.
Why, surely the gods themselves have forbidden that a man who is kind to others should commit unnatural self-murder.
Starkad rebuked them for making themselves look ridiculous with such an unnatural visage, and for clowning with wide grinning cheeks; for from this, he declared, soft and effeminate profligates derived their wanton incontinence.
Then he took the wife of the brother he had butchered, cappingunnatural murder with incest.
Ragnar received him with the greatest honour, because, while the unnaturalwar had raged its fiercest, he had behaved with the most entire filial respect.
She is in her own room, you unnatural boy--the blue room, next to what used to be yours.
In these and in other characteristics mentioned, the unnatural aspect of sports takes over their original, natural component.
The meaning of such a question can be conjured only if articulated with its pendant: Is literacy unnatural or artificial?
In that she succeeds, because it is not unnatural to her.
That she had small remembrance at present of a third illustrates, I am afraid, a temporary oblivion of Mrs. Wix, an accident to be explained only by a state of unnatural excitement.
I do not know that this unnatural sacrifice is supposed to extend itself further.
Never try to place a model in a pose which he can only hold by an unnatural strain.
In trying to obscure or idealize them, you only lose character, or paint a character into your model which is unnatural to him; the result will not be satisfactory.
A poor place," he said, speaking in asunnatural a tone as possible, while all the time he wondered if the fellow recognised him.
Also he observed that her eyes sparkled with an unnatural light, and that her upper lip, owing to some nervous contraction, was drawn back a little, so that her small white teeth were very visible.
I assure you, that this unnatural estrangement formed one of the saddest events in my life; and for the love I still bear his memory, I will never desert his orphan son.
I never shall forget the unnaturaljoy displayed by Robert on this melancholy occasion: "Thank God!
A horrible thought flashed through my brain; a ghastly sickness came over me and I stifled the unnatural supposition.
Under this imminent threat of medicine he assumed an unnatural cheerfulness.
Unnatural effort in breathing, over-effort in breath control, as well as singing without adequate breath, all induce tension that is reflected at once in the sensitive throat.
Sufficient investigations have not been made to make the matter certain, but tremolo, trembling of the vocal organs, and muscular stiffness, or unnatural tension, seem to go together.
Training based upon the theory of many registers results in an artificial andunnatural division of the voice.
We are, without being conscious of it, so habituated to unnatural tension that automatic breathing is shallow and irregular instead of being deep and rhythmic.
The too common vulgar striving for power rather than for beauty or purity of tone induces unnatural effort and strain that both directly and sympathetically affect the throat with stiffness.
In his early youth nature was to Victor Hugo a great Ariel-Caliban, the product of a superhuman ideality and an unnatural bestiality, the result obtained by the combination of two supernatural ingredients.
Characters, emotions, actions--everything seems unnatural to us when we read these plays aloud in the mess-room.
In Victor Hugo, the founder of the school, the dual love of the natural and the unnatural was the result of a personal peculiarity.
Do you know that I have not seen you for seven years, you unnatural boy?
Forgive me if I touch a painful chord; but this marriage seems to me so unnatural that I must speak out.
The faculty of wonder is not defunct, but is only getting more and more emancipated from the unnaturalservice of terror, and restored to its proper function as a minister of delight.
Rhyme had been censured as unnatural in dialogue; but Dryden replies that it is no more so than blank verse, since no man talks any kind of verse in real life.
To this power the painter of genius directs his aim; in this sense he studies nature, and often arrives at his end, even by being unnatural in the confined sense of the word.
There was something unnatural and terrifying in her sudden calm, as she forced herself to rise and greet her visitor.
A theme so unnatural would have found little favour with the Attic poets; the subject is more likely to have been approached by the Alexandrian writers, whom Catullus often copies.
The speeches, besides being in the highest degree unnatural and unhistoric, are far too eloquent, moving the feelings instead of the judgment.
Upon the mount the King his tentage fixt, And in the town the Barons lay in sight, When as the Trent was risen so betwixt, That for a while prolonged the unnatural fight.
It was not unnatural that Rudolphi and his successors should confound these two forms together, and it is also not a little curious that the smaller of the two species has the larger mouth.
Mere discoloration by carmine solution, or by the addition of a drop of the solution of permanganate of potash, instantly caused them to assume grotesque and unnatural shapes (figs.
But let him speak for himself: It may seem unnatural to speak of a conscious existence as a state of death.
Recognizing from the wild note that she was laboring under some unnatural strain, he answered soothingly, "I'm glad you called me, dear.
Conscience turned to the bridesmaid with a queer and unnatural ring in her voice.
She gave me political existence, and taught me in her political school; and I should be worse than an unnatural son did I forget or disobey her precepts.
The pain occasioned by this unnatural position was great; and when continued, as it sometimes was, for an hour or more, produced intense agony.
