1 The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot.
2 As she was naturally pale and unbending in manner she made few friends at school.
3 To appear natural he pushed his cap back on his head and planted his elbows on the table.
4 With almost maternal solicitude she urged him to let his nature open to the full: she became his confessor.
5 Villona was in good humour because he had had a very satisfactory luncheon; and besides he was an optimist by nature.
6 He understood our little failings, understood the weakness of our poor fallen nature, understood the temptations of this life.
7 The adventures related in the literature of the Wild West were remote from my nature but, at least, they opened doors of escape.
8 His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularised by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.
9 The pupil reasserted itself quickly, this half-disclosed nature fell again under the reign of prudence, and her astrakhan jacket, moulding a bosom of a certain fullness, struck the note of defiance more definitely.
10 He thought that in her eyes he would ascend to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable loneliness.
11 The adventure of meeting Gallaher after eight years, of finding himself with Gallaher in Corless's surrounded by lights and noise, of listening to Gallaher's stories and of sharing for a brief space Gallaher's vagrant and triumphant life, upset the equipoise of his sensitive nature.