1 Mattie was, before the accident; I never knew a sweeter nature.
2 He supposed it was his natural awkwardness that made him feel so.
3 Ethan's love of nature did not take the form of a taste for agriculture.
4 "It's natural enough you should be leaving us" he floundered on, following his thought.
5 He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal of natural beauty.
6 Mattie had no natural turn for housekeeping, and her training had done nothing to remedy the defect.
7 By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
8 Startled at finding it locked he rattled the handle violently; then he reflected that Mattie was alone and that it was natural she should barricade herself at nightfall.
9 Most people were either indifferent to his troubles, or disposed to think it natural that a young fellow of his age should have carried without repining the burden of three crippled lives.
10 The commonplace nature of what they said produced in Ethan an illusion of long-established intimacy which no outburst of emotion could have given, and he set his imagination adrift on the fiction that they had always spent their evenings thus and would always go on doing so.
11 The builder refused genially, as he did everything else: he treated the matter as something in the nature of a practical joke, and wanted to know if Ethan meditated buying a grand piano or adding a "cupolo" to his house; offering, in the latter case, to give his services free of cost.