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Example sentences for "nature"

Lexicographically close words:
naturallie; naturally; naturalness; naturals; naturam; natured; naturedly; naturel; naturelle; naturellement
  1. The taste for nature study is like the taste for olives.

  2. With his knowledge of medicine the doctor assisted nature in restoring people to health.

  3. Nature has been kind to Labrador, however, in one respect.

  4. He makes you see how beautiful Nature is: I can't explain it exactly, but if you take it right it has a sort of soothing uplifting influence on you.

  5. And he does it because it's his nature to, not because he thinks he ought to.

  6. All subjects that had to do with nature found this eager response in him, and Worthing, a countryman by birth and upbringing, had said more than once that he had never had a pupil so easy to teach.

  7. He had come to see that she was fulfilling herself in this marriage, and that the expression of her true and tender nature would flower beautifully under it, though its flowering might be hidden from the world at large.

  8. You're helping nature, and if you learn the ways of nature she helps you.

  9. But human nature works in them just the same as in anybody else.

  10. The good nature which, one felt, should always have been in his face, shone at last.

  11. He mightn't stop to ask, as I do, as Howells did, about the locked doors and the nature of the wounds.

  12. He could prove the immaterial nature of the repulsive hand wavering from the wall.

  13. If that is so," Paredes said easily, "the nature of my wound would suggest that she is guilty of the crimes in the old room.

  14. We have to learn the nature of the forces we are dealing with, exactly how dangerous they are.

  15. Such arrangements are common enough in colonial houses, and there was more than the nature of the crimes to tell you there was some such thing here.

  16. Otherwise the nature of their industry and its surroundings had imposed upon them a silence, in itself beast-like and unnatural.

  17. Thus, far from all the world, I mutely sat, communing with the great voice of Nature around, and to the faint promptings of my small nature within.

  18. The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.

  19. Thus human nature seeks for pleasure and enjoyment in many and varied channels, according to its own appreciation of wherein these consist.

  20. The Pious Christian Instructed in the Nature and Practice of the Principal Exercises of Piety.

  21. I had an undeniable proof of his nature by the scampering away of several heads of antelope that had been near the pond, and by the loud quacking of a flock of wild-duck then swimming thereon.

  22. Two or three applications of this nature I know to be, from actual observation, a positive cure.

  23. The day after the dedication a local paper said that "for grandeur of design and nature of execution, we presume this church is not surpassed by any in the United States.

  24. But the wild woods about Philadelphia offered so many opportunities for tramping and nature investigation that the estate was neglected.

  25. The passions of human nature were never more tenderly agitated than in this interesting and distressful scene.

  26. And this dominating force in his nature explains his idea of nationality and his opposition to State Rights.

  27. Of course the poor boy, whose health was still weak and who was by nature shy and independent, found such treatment hard to bear.

  28. His warm heart and generous nature were especially shown in his own household, where he was kind to all, including his slaves.

  29. Although at times extremely impatient, his tenderness and frankness of nature easily won enduring friendships.

  30. He was a tall, slender backwoodsman, with muscles of iron and a rugged nature that enabled him to endure great hardship.

  31. Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.

  32. It is earnestly hoped that other contributions of a similar nature will continue to be made.

  33. Man sits at the feet of nature, learns her laws, and then breathes into them his own soul, and nature becomes the living thing we call Art.

  34. Bring your knowledge of history and of human nature to bear upon the situation.

  35. We hear people speak of unanswered prayer; but there is no such thing, and in the nature of things there cannot be.

  36. Nature at its best cannot by itself build for us a temple that humanity at its worst, or even at something less than its worst, cannot pull down about our ears.

  37. To adjudicate this quarrel, it is necessary to define a point at which nature somehow exceeds herself.

  38. Huxley chose to draw a line between nature and morality, at the point where a limit is set to the isolated organism's struggle against all comers.

  39. The nature of goodness, in other words, is such as to involve certain specific relations, here involving a person or subject.

  40. The deity represents this purpose in the cosmos at large, and rallies the forces of nature to its support.

  41. How can it be said that a being that coincides with the known laws of nature works only good?

  42. Nature will not permit life to keep what it has unless it gains more.

  43. Palmer: The Nature of Goodness, Chapters I, II; and W.

  44. The laws of nature are as indifferent to private purposes as they are to private desires, and whether these be personal or social in their scope.

  45. And the theoretical interest also tends to lead beyond itself; for it prompts the mind to examine the whole nature of objects, and to explore their context without limit in the hope of completer truth.

  46. It is the menace of nature which stimulates progress.

  47. If nature be defined in terms of the categories of any stage of complexity, all beyond will wear the aspect of a miracle.

  48. Nature being thus enlivened, the simpler terms of value now find a meaning.

  49. It is because nature always remains a source of difficulty and danger {131} that life is provoked to renew the war and achieve a more thorough conquest.

  50. Illustration: Nature has kept faith with him and brought him safely back to his meadow.

  51. Tis so with the children of birds--they find what Nature has given them to seek.

  52. Thus it is that Nature gives to a scavenger the duty of service to all living creatures; and the freshness of the ocean and the cleanness of the sands of the shore are in part a gift of the gulls, for which we should thank and protect them.

  53. But for all that it was not different from the sort of color-variations that Mother Nature gives to many of her children; and you may meet now and again examples of the same sort among flowers, and insects, and other creatures, too.

  54. Women there were, who wished to make themselves look better by wearing the feathers that Nature had given snowy herons for their very own.

  55. Busy with the life Nature taught them to live, the twins grew up as Uncle Sam had grown before them.

  56. For rice is the favorite food during the Feast of the Vagabonds, and to them Nature has a special way of serving it.

  57. Nature has brought down through all the centuries; a living relic of a time of which we know very little except from fossils men find and guess about.

  58. We should have known that there were serious differences of opinion even among the Apostles themselves, but we should have had a very imperfect knowledge as to their nature and reconciliation.

  59. But the stern facts of his own nature and the bitter outcome of all human experience are too strong for such attempts.

  60. Thus does man's rebellion reverse the order of nature and frustrate the will of God.

  61. Worst of all, they claim to be specially enlightened members of the Church, having a more comprehensive knowledge of the nature of Christian liberty, while they are turning the fundamental principles of Christian life upside down.

  62. If care and watchfulness are laid aside, its evil nature will burst out again, and the results will be calamitous.

  63. The temptations proceed, not from God, but from the man's own evil nature; a nature which God created stainless, but which man of his own free will has debased.

  64. It may have a right to the name of wisdom, just as a correct belief about the nature of God may have a right to the name of faith, even when it remains barren, and therefore powerless to save.

  65. Only very gradually did even the Apostles obtain a clear vision as to the nature of the kingdom which their Lord had founded and left in their charge, for them to occupy until He came.

  66. And by knowledge is meant acquaintance with the nature and history of man, and with the nature and history of the universe.

  67. But the horrible nature of sin is not so manifest, and with regard to that experience teaches its lesson more slowly.

  68. Nature has generously provided for every mile of the country, and there is really very little choice with the exception that farther west the climate is somewhat milder.

  69. When the railways push into the Athabaska and the Peace, it will be realized that Alberta owns an empire north of the Saskatchewan, a country set apart by nature to provide homes for millions of agrarian people.

  70. Nature intended British Columbia to develop a great seaward commerce, and substantial trade relations are now established northward to the Yukon and southward to Mexico.

  71. The great book of Nature lies open before me, and dwarfs all other literature into insignificance.

  72. These little organisms also occur on the outer surface of Star-fishes and other members of the sea-egg's class; but regarding their exact nature and functions, zoologists are still in doubt.

  73. Believing the trade to be of the nature of crimes and pollutions, which stained the honour of the country, he would never relax his efforts.

  74. Why did all-creating Nature Make the plant, for which we toil?

  75. There must also, from the nature of the human heart, be oppression.

  76. All the feelings of nature revolted at it.

  77. We might find instances indeed, in history, of men violating the feelings of nature on extraordinary occasions.

  78. Thus, for instance, what bill could alter the nature of the human passions?

  79. But in all of them, whatever the nature of the government was, men were considered as goods and property, and, as such, subject to plunder in the same manner as property in other countries.

  80. For I have been obliged to consider ultimately, that there were both lights and shades in the human character; and that, if the bad part of our nature was visible on these occasions, the nobler part of it ought not to be forgotten.

  81. But most of all were we affected, knowing as we did the nature and the extent of the sufferings belonging to Slave-trade, that these should be continued to another year.

  82. He thought that the question, on account of the nature and urgency of it, ought to be decided in the present legislature.

  83. Mark here the moral of the tale, and learn the nature and the cure of sulkiness.

  84. By this picture was exhibited the nature of the Elysium, which Mr. Norris and others had invented for them during their transportation from their own country.

  85. Others went off because it happened that immediately on my interview, I acquainted them with the nature of my errand, and solicited their attendance in London.

  86. But here, indeed, it becomes us peculiarly to rejoice; for though nature shrinks from pain, and compassion is engendered in us when we see it become the portion of others, yet what is physical suffering compared with moral guilt?

  87. I therefore stated to them at once the nature of my errand to France, and desired their opinion upon it.

  88. The Nuncio had questioned the King about the nature of his new Papacy.

  89. The affair," he said, "was of such a nature as to admit of no solution save the declaring that a marriage contracted with the authority and license of the Holy See was valid and indissoluble.

  90. The problem was to untie the knot with as little suffering to either as the nature of the case permitted.

  91. Human nature is said to be the same in all ages and countries.

  92. The Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Durham, both of whom had been her friends, went down to her to explain the nature of the statute and persuade her to obedience.

  93. The world of science is visibly on the threshold of new and revolutionary discoveries on the nature and composition of matter, and whither these discoveries will lead us it is not usefully possible to conjecture.

  94. The nature of its extensions will next be discussed.

  95. But the general nature of the more-or-less-perfected dress of a hundred years hence may perhaps be not unsuccessfully imagined, having in mind the considerations likely to determine it.

  96. If anything in the nature of balloons should survive the century hydrogen will inflate them, and both our hydrogen and our oxygen will most likely be got by preference from the sea.

  97. Already our notions concerning the nature of matter have been revolutionised.

  98. To conceive of them as thus abandoned is to overlook the whole nature of political change.

  99. One perceives this at once on comparing a factory where the by-products are of a nature to be utilised directly, with one where these products are of small value.

  100. And here the wiser nature of the new age will assist the constructive genius of the reformer.

  101. Then for sheer woman-nature the girl edged a little bit nearer to the poor man who had almost killed her.

  102. It was sheer Nature's nature though that blew a strand of the girl's bright, fragrant hair across the man's lips.

  103. And for sheer man-nature the man put his arm around the poor girl whom he had almost killed.

  104. Don Tiburcio took the money, and observed, as in the nature of pleasant gossip, that Don Anastasio had quite an unusual outfit this time.

  105. Given the nature of the man, his mortal fear was the dreadfullest torture that could be devised.

  106. Evidently nature had molded them boyishly soft and refined at first, but in the hardening of life, of a life such as his, they had become rugged.

  107. Yet he could not but think of that taint in what nature had made so pure.

  108. He would be teasing Nature for a sonnet's inspiration.

  109. There was one circumstance that already seemed a portent, and got on a person's nerves like the stillness of nature just before a Kansas cyclone.

  110. But in his meditations, so grave and unwonted in the wild, hard-riding trooper lad, there was nothing to indicate a second nature in him, an instinct that was on the alert against every leafy clump and cactus and mesh of vine.

  111. The secret of your malady is, you've not yet, though you're on a healthy leap for the practices of Nature, hopped to the primary conception of what Nature means.

  112. Only Nature can express the uttermost beauty with her gathering and tuning of discords.

  113. The question was a drop on lower spheres, and it required definitions, to touch the exact nature of the form of beauty, and excuse a cooler tone on the commoner plane.

  114. Nature does it in a breezy tree or over ruffled waters.

  115. You hate Nature unless you have it served on a dish by your own cook.

  116. He kicked at the bondage to our common fleshly nature imposed on him by the mother of the little animal.

  117. And she would gain information of the singular nature of the young of the male sex in listening to the wrangle between Lord Fleetwood and Gower Woodseer on the subject of pocket-money for the needs of the Countess Carinthia.

  118. The fellow can fiddle fine things and occasionally clear sense:--'Men hating Nature are insane.

  119. Juniper dells and that tree of the flashing leaf, and that dear old boy, your father, young as you and me, and saying love of Nature gives us eternal youth.

  120. If it is rather general to hate Nature and maltreat women, we begin to see why the world is a mad world.

  121. Is the man unsympathetic with women a hater of Nature deductively?

  122. But his was not the surface nature which can put a question of the sort and pass it.

  123. Twould not be in so grand a man's nature to let his fowls go hungry.

  124. But a certain contrariness in his nature seemed to be continually interfering with this.

  125. The largest public don't want nature and style; they want an improbable story and virtue rewarded.

  126. There are certain conditions under which this amount of nitrogen may be exceeded in order to gain definite and specific purposes, but in such cases the nature of the proteid is of great importance.

  127. Sidenote: Various forms of carbon] The pure element, carbon, is found in nature in the form of diamonds, which are pure crystallized carbon.

  128. The pectins in fruit are in most cases wholesome enough, though it would seem the better part of wisdom to eat all fruits in the ripened state, after Nature has completed her work.

  129. This is the action that takes place in the intestinal tract, and that which Nature employs to move the contents along toward the final point of excretion.

  130. Every organic substance is primarily produced in nature for a specific purpose in the life of its species.

  131. Man's primitive diet does not prove that he is by nature a vegetarian, as is the cow, and therefore entirely unsuited to digest any material of animal origin.

  132. Nature works along the lines of least resistance, and points out with unerring certainty the best, the cheapest, and the easiest way to live.

  133. We have been trained to want or to crave intoxicants, stimulants and sedatives; we have learned to relish things that have no food value, and we have grown to dislike the best food that nature produces, and to accept many of her worst.

  134. The probable reason for which Nature adopts such a complex process for the absorption of fat, is because fat is insoluble.

  135. The houses of the rich seem frowning upon her; her timid nature tells her they have no doors open to her.

  136. The singularities of human nature are most strikingly blended in woman.

  137. The ships sail by cheerily, there is a touching beauty about the landscape before her, all nature seems glad.

  138. She repines, her womanly nature revolts at the thought--the destiny her superstition pictured so dark and terrible, stares her in the face.

  139. Nature had indeed been lavish of her gifts on this fair creature, to whose charms no painter could give a touch more fascinating.

  140. Solitude does, indeed, tend to invest the passionate nature with a calm surface.

  141. You may say that nothing so forcibly illustrates a state of society as the character of its institutions for the care of those unfortunate beings whom a capricious nature has deprived of their reason.

  142. The wholesome oak that spreads its roots deep in the generous soil, could not be more a part of nature than he.

  143. To Father de Smet's healthy nature nothing seemed more superfluous than sin.

  144. And you didn't appreciate how much her nature demanded.

  145. It was felt to be something in the nature of an investment for the girl's future.

  146. She could no more appreciate the steady, stern self-denial that had gone to the gathering of that three thousand dollars than she could the nature of a person who would nag for twenty years the girl she meant to endow.

  147. Ernestine watched the orderly development of this family with all the interest of a nature lover observing a nest of robins.

  148. Of the real nature of Art and the artist's life Milly had no better conception than when she first fell in love with Jack Bragdon.

  149. At last she had learned something of the real nature of men, and never again in her long experience with the other sex was she unaware of "what things meant.

  150. Milly especially had rather perch among the chimney-pots and see the procession go by from the roof than possess all that Nature had to offer.

  151. Timid as Edgar Duncan was by nature he was man enough to strike for what he wanted when he had his chance,--as he had struck manfully in those bulky letters.

  152. The crust of bourgeois standards is so thick in American life that it takes a rare and powerful nature to break through, and Bragdon had not yet begun to knock his way.

  153. They were both by nature and training cockneys.

  154. To Milly this ceaseless effort to comment on nature had something of the ridiculous,--perhaps supererogatory would be a better word.

  155. The low, degraded nature of the sex that had, by physical force, usurped the rule of the universe was dramatically exposed.

  156. And something deeper than egotism, far deeper than jealousy, rose from the depths of her nature in antagonism--a sex-antagonism to the whole affair.

  157. The outlaw, like the commercial freebooter, is often a deformity on the face of nature that darkens the light of God’s day.

  158. It is at the gateway of his nature from which his influence goes forth that he needs to post his sentinels.

  159. His lines are the embodiment of human nature as it should be, and to me they are a sort of creed.


  160. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    nature and; nature from; nature herself; nature itself; nature must; nature study; nature worship; natured face; natured fellow