1 For I am naturally inventive, as you know.
2 I suppose it was the unexpected nature of my loss that maddened me.
3 As it seemed to me, the refined beauty and the etiolated pallor followed naturally enough.
4 It was natural on that golden evening that I should jump at the idea of a social paradise.
5 It's a curious thing,' said the Medical Man; 'but I certainly don't know the natural order of these flowers.
6 It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
7 Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition.
8 But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact.
9 We soon met others of the dainty ones, laughing and dancing in the sunlight as though there was no such thing in nature as the night.
10 I was naturally most occupied with the growing crowd of little people, and with the big open portals that yawned before me shadowy and mysterious.
11 I determined to put the thought of my Time Machine and the mystery of the bronze doors under the sphinx as much as possible in a corner of memory, until my growing knowledge would lead me back to them in a natural way.
12 The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Phoenician decorations as I passed through, and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather-worn.