Use nature in a sentence
Sentences starting with nature
- Nature is struggling with something, and I am afraid she is under in the wrestling-match. [6]
- Nature was so vast; she was so insignificant; changes in its motionless inorganic life were imperceptible save through the telescopes of years; but she, like the wind, the water, and the clouds, was variable, inconstant. [11]
- Nature shall be to thee as a symbol. [6]
- Nature knows how to garnish a ruin to get the best effect. [5]
- Nature is apt to be belittled by this sort of display, but the noble dignity of the vast arch of stone was superior to this trifling, and even had a sort of mystery added to its imposing grandeur. [4]
- Nature was in the loveliest mood when it was created, and art has generally followed her suggestions of beauty and refinement. [4]
- Nature never spares the individual; we are always balked of a complete success; no prosperity is promised to our self-esteem. [6]
- Nature has adapted the family organization to the kind of life it has lived. [6]
- Nature is wiser than we give her credit for being; never wiser than in her dealings with the old. [6]
- Nature was her teacher. [6]
Sentences ending with nature
- It was sensitive, yet firm, as with some purpose deep as her nature was by creation and experience, and always deepening that nature. [11]
- Look at it, ye who would know what is the tolerance, the freedom from prejudice, which can suffer such an incarnation of all that is devilish to lie unharmed in the cradle of Nature! [6]
- Whatever excursions the writer makes in fancy, we require fundamental consistency with human nature. [4]
- To read and write were still rare accomplishments in the country, and Dogberry expressed a common notion when he said reading and writing come by nature. [4]
- She thought it would restore her peace of mind forever if she could succeed in speaking to him for even one brief moment and telling him what a transformation his guilt had wrought in her ardent love and her whole nature. [10]
- Ah, priest and worldly saint, how subtle and enduring are the primal instincts of human nature! [4]
- How beautiful the world is to an invalid, whose senses are all clarified, who has been so near the world of spirits that she is sensitive to the finest influences, and whose frame responds with a thrill to the subtlest ministrations of soothing nature. [5]
- This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
- I am not without talent for drawing, and even at that time it was an easy matter to reproduce anything which had caught my eye, not only distinctly, but sometimes attractively and with a certain degree of fidelity to nature. [10]
- I entirely agree with the spirit of the verses I have looked over, in this point at least, that a true man's allegiance is given to that which is highest in his own nature. [6]
Short sentences using nature
- Human nature is vicious. [4]
- Now to return to Nature. [3]
- Method of Nature, The, 136-141. [6]
- Man is greater than Nature. [4]
- Nature is "awful smart. [4]
- He had a selfish nature. [11]
- Nature asserts her rights. [10]
- Human nature suggested revenge. [5]
- Nature, unaided, never reforms anything. [4]
- Human nature will not change. [7]
Sentences containing nature two or more times
- But human nature was human nature! [11]
- Woman in her very nature is created to be sheltered and protected; and the yearning in her, when her love is given, is intense as nature itself to seek sanctuary in that love. [9]
- There was some unfathomable fount in his nature which was even beyond any occurrence of his past; some radical, constitutional sorrow, coupled with a very strong, practical, and even vigorous nature. [11]
- But Miss McDonald understood human nature better than that, at least the nature of Mrs. Mavick. [4]
- Up to this time Shelley had been master of his nature, and it was a nature which was as beautiful and as nearly perfect as any merely human nature may be. [5]
- In working it out you are entitled, from the outside, to the most impartial attempt to understand its real nature, to the utmost patience with the facts of human nature, to the most profound and most helpful sympathy. [4]
- As he poured out a glass of water, however, the thought stung him that the nature of the success and its value depended on the nature of the love and its value. [11]
- But we are not without peculiar types; not without characters, not without incidents, stories, heroisms, inequalities; not without the charms of nature in infinite variety; and human nature is the same here that it is in Spain, France, and England. [4]
- But though Emerson never betrayed it to the offence of others, he must have been conscious, like Milton, of "a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness," which was as a shield about his inner nature. [6]
- The poet animates Nature with his own thoughts, perceives the affinities between Nature and the soul, with Beauty as his main end. [6]
More example sentences with the word nature in them
- It's human nature you've got to deal with, not theories about law and justice. [4]
- A self-sufficient, doughty young man, with the round head that withstands many blows, taking by nature to competition and buccaneering in general. [9]
- Even a jolly young Irishman of Plaster Cove, whose nature it is to sleep under whatever discouragement, is beaten by these circumstances. [4]
- This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
- That's your nature, you can't help it. [9]
- And I trust you can say, my lad, that you have made the best of your advantages, though I fear you are of a wild nature, as your father was before you. [9]
- And besides, while you are waiting, Nature does not wait. [4]
- This should bring you a barony,--Sir John," my lord added, half graciously, half satirically; for the honest truth of this man's nature vexed him. [11]
- But the best years of your life are going, and your education and your nature have not their chance. [11]
- In all the years I've spent here I've never seen one that could compare with him in nature, character, and force. [11]
- The artist nature, yearning to create, began to stir within more ceaselessly than ever before. [10]
- Such an event would naturally stir Mark Twain to comment on human nature in general. [5]
- Nature, too, it would have seemed, had forged a mood in keeping with the time, for there was no air stirring when we came in, and a strange stillness had come upon the landscape. [11]
- Not to regret would have been to change his nature, and that were a feat impossible for his biographer to accomplish. [4]
- Chateaux and lands would be hers again, and she would go back again to that brilliant life among the great to which she was born, for which nature had fitted her. [9]
- But happily the world does not believe this, and indeed would be very unhappy if it could not try and prove all the possibilities of human nature, to suffer as well as to enjoy. [4]
- It was the work of a man with a dramatic nature and a mathematical turn. [11]
- Something in her words had ruled him to her own calmness, and at that moment he had the first flash of understanding of her nature and its true relation to his own. [11]
- I do not wonder that the tropical people, where Nature never goes to sleep, give it up, and sit in lazy acquiescence. [4]
- My friend's true womanly nature was never carried away by it. [10]
- She was a woman, and a capricious one, too, and of what would not such a nature be capable? [10]
- To study nature without fear is possible, but without reproach, impossible. [6]
- There were few with whose nature he had not become familiar in the darkness and solitude that once surrounded him. [10]
- The physician noticed, with warm sympathy, how deeply this mysterious expectation had influenced her excitable nature, ever torn by varying emotions, and the excellent man was ready to aid her as a friend and intercessor. [10]
- To repay them with treachery and desertion was foreign to his nature and, drawing a long breath, he sprang to his feet with the conviction that he had chosen aright. [10]
- In her satisfaction with this, and from her good nature, she was contented to be served with her refreshments after the concert by Mr. March, and to remain joking with him. [8]
- Her nature harmonized with the ideal. [10]
- To surround her with spies chosen from the lay class was repugnant to his lofty nature. [10]
- He surrounded her with precautions, that Nature might have every opportunity of cunningly shifting the weights from the scale of death to the scale of life, as she will often do if not rudely disturbed or interfered with. [6]
- But our intercourse with Nature had been limited to formal visits which we were permitted to pay the august lady at stated intervals. [10]
- The imagination associated with it the cheerful nature which, like a loyal comrade, goes hand in hand with success, deserved and undeserved good fortune, woman's favour, doughty deeds, the highest and strongest traits of character. [10]
- A nature overflowing with impulsive affection, it must spend itself upon others. [11]
- He filled nature with his overflowing currents. [6]
- Selfishness was inwoven with every fibre of his nature. [11]
- Mademoiselle Cerise sang, with chic and abandon very fascinating to his own sensuous nature, a song with a charming air and sentiment. [11]
- Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures; him the past instructs; him the future invites. [6]
- She said it with a voice also charged with fear; for she was by nature a landfarer, not a sea-farer, though on the rivers of Spain she had lived almost as much as on land, and she was a good swimmer. [11]
- Feeling her way with a stick, she paused now and then to draw in long breaths of sweet air from the meadows, as if in the joy of Nature she found a balm for the cruelties of Destiny. [11]
- Elsie grew up with a kind of filial feeling for him, such as her nature was capable of. [6]
- Was this man with a flushed face, staring eyes, disordered hair and hoarse voice, that favorite of fortune whose happy nature, easy demeanor, sunny gaze and enchanting song had bewitched her soul? [10]
- Here he was with a fine appetite: it was like coals of fire heaped on his head by Nature for last night's business at the Cote Dorion. [11]
- He, Adrian, would wish her to have a companion of nobler nature and more delicate perceptions. [10]
- But it was wisely ordered otherwise, to the end that we should improve our time by an interesting study of human nature. [4]
- In considering the wing of a bat, he brings forward (p. 218) what appears to me (to use Auguste Comte's words) a mere metaphysical principle, namely, the preservation "in its integrity of the mammalian nature of the animal. [1]
- The latter opinion will probably prevail, for it has nature on its side, and the course of history, and the imagination. [4]
- A delicate nature will not commonly choose a pursuit which implies the habitual infliction of suffering, so readily as some gentler office. [6]
- Nay, if you will have the kindness to notice, Nature has not gifted my lady musk-deer with the personal peculiarity by which her lord is so widely known. [6]
- I think you will find it true, that, before any vice can fasten on a man, body, mind, or moral nature must be debilitated. [6]
- The wary critic will be very careful about dogmatizing over the nature and distribution of literary products. [4]
- All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene. [5]
- That, indeed, was why her Carvillho Gonzales, who also had been dual in nature, said to himself so often, "I am a devil," and nearly as often, "I have the heart of an angel. [11]
- Some people, to whom nature and Providence have not been generous live up to things; to you it is given to live down to them; and no one can do it so well. [11]
- One bookseller to whom I applied told me that he had had a few copies before he understood the nature of the work, but that, after becoming acquainted with it, nothing should induce him to sell another. [5]
- As a matter wholly my own, I would authorize no biography, without time and opportunity [sic] to carefully examine and consider every word of it and, in this case, in the nature of things, I can have no such time and Opportunity [sic]. [7]
- But, on the whole, I'm glad--" Jack stopped on the verge of speaking out of his better nature. [4]
- You see, your whole nature is pure kindness, but you are still too young and innocent quite to understand all the duties of that omnipotent love which beareth and endureth all things. [10]
- It absorbed his whole nature and made him wretched enough. [5]
- But her mother, who was born a countess--if the shoe doesn't make a foot small which Nature created big, there's such an outcry! [10]
- Happy the old, who see Nature purified before they depart. [6]
- Pauline and she, who lived in different worlds, and yet were tied to each other by circumstances they could not control, would each work out her own destiny after her own nature, since John Alloway had come a-wooing. [11]
- But as the whites were protected by the fort, and the Indians were treacherous by nature, it was decided that the latter might use the hard missiles. [4]
- For a little while, hope made a show of reviving--not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure. [5]
- In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. [5]
- And all the while the river flowing through the endless prairies, high-banked, ennobled by living woods, lipped with green, kept surging in her ears, inviting her, alluring her--alluring her with a force too deep and powerful for weak human nature to bear for long. [11]
- Scenes and occurrences which, to every appearance, are calculated to rend the heart with the profoundest emotions of trouble, do not fetter that exalted principle imbued in her very nature. [5]
- The radiant cheerfulness which, the day before yesterday, had invested her nature with an irresistible charm had vanished. [10]
- The Regulations under which the Traffic exists in Queensland are inadequate to prevent abuses, and in the nature of things they must remain so. [5]
- The Signora's apartments, which she permitted us to see, were quite in the nature of an oratory, with shrines and sacred pictures and relics of the faith. [4]
- The manner in which she intended to mention the colour should show him the nature of the bond which united them. [10]
- A good caricature, which seizes the prominent features and gives them the character Nature hinted, but did not fully carry out, is a work of genius. [6]
- The particular accident which might interrupt his career must, evidently, be determined by circumstances; but it must be of a nature to explain itself without the necessity of any particular person's becoming involved in the matter. [6]
- The subtle force which is in every human being, more or less active, has this power, as if love were somehow a principle pervading nature itself, and capable of transforming it. [4]
- Only the mind which is capable of comprehending the laws of Nature can escape the danger of mistaking the fortuitous, and ever changing reality, for the eternal and unchangeable truth. [10]
- The things for which her mother had striven she took for granted, and thought of them not at all, and she had by nature that simplicity and astonishing frankness of manner and speech which was once believed to be an exclusive privilege of duchesses. [9]
- The same logic which had carried him to certain conclusions with reference to human nature, this same irresistible logic carried him straight on from his text until he arrived at those other results, which not only astonished his people, as was said, but surprised himself. [6]
- He was wondering whether, in this primitive place, such a mind and nature would be the wiser for reading; whether it were not better to be without a mental aspiration, which might set up false standards. [11]
- In the shadows where his nature dwelt now he would not allow her good innocence and truth to enter. [11]
- You are right when you say that there is a large margin in human nature over which the logicians have no dominion; glad am I that it is so. [14]
- There are times when our friends do not act like themselves, but apparently in obedience to some other law than that of their own proper nature. [6]
- And another thing, when I make a mistake in Hadleyburg nature the man that puts that error upon me is entitled to a high honorarium, and some one must pay. [5]
- The off-days came when her artistic nature was expressing itself in charcoal, for she drew to the admiration of all among the lady boarders who could not draw. [8]
- On the occasion when he had quoted a verse of poetry to them, one of them said to him with a sidelong glance: "You seem to be dead-struck on Nature, Ingolby. [11]
- Friendship, love, religion, whatever will set her nature at work. [6]
- I don't know what my remark was now, but I know the nature of it. [5]
- I cannot tell what it is, but there is something wrong in your nature, something that poisons your life. [11]
- He had followed what --his nature, his instincts? [11]
- To these considerations were to be joined other circumstances which we need not here mention, of a nature to add greatly to their force, and which would go far of themselves to determine his action. [6]
- The two earls were such opposites in nature that they fraternized at once. [5]
- She knew they were not related, and so she put the whole thing down to Carnac's impressionable nature which led its owner into singular imitations. [11]
- But darker hours were in the order of nature very near at hand. [6]
- Fielding and Norman were eager and nervous, and their hands and faces seemed to have taken on the arid nature of the desert. [11]
- Perhaps it was well that it should not, for it has taught us a lesson of the healing faculty of Nature which was needed, and for which many of us have made proper acknowledgments. [6]
- He is a well set up young man of about twenty-seven, bronzed from his life in a training camp, of an adventurous and social nature. [9]
- It might very well be so, for all disturbance in nature and men was the work of Seth, and how wild was the storm in his breast! [10]
- You know as well as I that there is no money to pay them," said he, with a certain pompous attempt at severity which characterized his kind nature. [9]
- You know as well as I do what a complete possession any ruling idea takes of her whole nature. [6]
- Remember, I have wealth more than wit can number; I have had power more than kings could emcompass; yet the world seems a desert; all nature appears an afflictive spectacle of warring passions. [5]
- But the point we wish to make is that neither society nor the law makes any allowance for the aberrations of human nature caused by dull and unpleasant weather. [4]
- So which course we shall take depends very much on the way the choice is presented to us, and on what the chooser is by nature. [6]
- In our profession we know something of human nature, and take my word for it, that the feller that came back to work out that shilling, will show himself one of these days in his true colours. [12]
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