Normal states

Usage examples of natures.

At all events, teachings of that description have an infallible effect upon natures of a peculiar stamp.

Bent up, wrinkled, yellow-eyed, with long upper-lip, projecting jaws, retreating chin, still meek features, long arms, large flat hands with uncolored palms and slightly webbed fingers, it was impossible not to see in this old creature a hint of the gradations by which life climbs up through the lower natures to the highest human developments.

Is it that some natures delight in evil, as others are thought to delight in virtue?

For as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical, as to be capable of doing injuries, without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow creatures.

I know not whether, through an unfortunate but uncurable perverseness in our natures, it may not be even impatient of persuasion.

Science teaches us about the deepest issues of origins, natures and fates-of our species, of life, of our planet, of the Universe.

If we could understand rat psychology, we would find that they were all different, just as any dog or horse breeder will tell you that his trainees have different natures or personalities, as we humans do.

I have had many private letters showing the same revolt of reasoning natures against doctrines which shock the more highly civilized part of mankind in this nineteenth century and are leading to those dissensions which have long shown as cracks, and are fast becoming lines of cleavage in some of the largest communions of Protestantism.

I shall now rather bring before you the natures and the minds of others.

And when Jupiter made man, he made two natures utterly distinct from one another.

Near him stood men who apparently had barely enough humanity left to make their dominating animal natures more dangerous and difficult to control.

In accordance with a tendency in impulsive natures, he reacted from something like despair into quite a sanguine and heroic mood.

The few plain domestics near her dozed and nodded through the hour, and so gained some physical preparation for the toils of the week, but their spiritual natures were as clearly dormant as their lumpish bodies.

The men, boys, and girls who worked at his side in the mill were in their natures like their garb, coarse and soiled.

He speedily gained self-control, and, as is usual with strong natures, became unusually quiet and undemonstrative.