1 They had strong, independent natures, both of them.
2 When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
3 Evidently she had great natural aptitude for her work.
4 Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution.
5 In some way he depended upon the excitement He could arouse in her hysterical nature.
6 The mother did her best, but no woman, out of her natural resources, could feed three babies.
7 She was a woman who could not be taught, it is said, though she had a crude natural force which carried with people whose feelings were accessible and whose taste was not squeamish.
8 Even when he sat opposite me in the kitchen, talking, he would turn his head a little toward the clock or the stove and look at me from the side, but with frankness and good nature.
9 It seemed, after all, so natural to be walking along a barbed-wire fence beside the sunset, toward a red pond, and to see my shadow moving along at my right, over the close-cropped grass.
10 Grandmother always talked, dear woman: to herself or to the Lord, if there was no one else to listen; but grandfather was naturally taciturn, and Jake and Otto were often so tired after supper that I used to feel as if I were surrounded by a wall of silence.