" There was something unnatural in such devotion.

"That!" exclaimed John Effingham, his voice sounding harsh and unnatural to the listener,"that picture like your mother!"

Among all the inhumanities of the late civil war there had been nothing so unnatural as this.

I mean they are unnatural for the young.

It began to penetrate the thick skull of the trader that there was something unnatural about their crouched silence.

In one he learned to know the natural man in his natural environment; in the other, the social, the artificial man in the most unnatural of surroundings.

Their wrongs have been unprovoked on their part, and unnatural on the part of those who have inflicted themin many cases the guilty authors of their being.

Their style was much more extravagant and unnatural than at the present day; and even at this early age, I had read the "Children of the Abbey," the "Mysteries of Udolpho," the "Scottish Chiefs," "Thaddeus of Warsaw," and many others of the same stamp.

After such a watching as this, the very eye becomes disordered, as after looking at a bright color it sees a spectrum of a totally different tint; and, when the long looked-for person appears, he himself looks unnatural at first, and strange.

Later, I learned to know that nothing is queer and unnatural in the world of human suffering; that great human suffering turns all that is queer and unnatural into commonplace.

In his delightful company I half forgot my anxieties, which, exaggerated as they may seem now, ware not unnatural after what I had seen of the confusion and distress that had followed the great battle, nay, which seem almost justified by the recent statement that "high officers" were buried after that battle whose names were never ascertained.

Indeed, the objection that has been made to him is that his characters are too distinctthat he puts labels on them; that they are often mere personifications of a single trick of speech or manner, which becomes tedious and unnatural by repetition.

Death by violence in a violent ward is after all not an unnatural deathfor a violent ward.

Her eyes were the most limpid brown Peter had ever seen, but her oval face was faintly unnatural from the use of negro face powder, which colored women insist on, and which gives their yellows and browns a barely perceptible greenish hue.

The musical motion of the water seems almost unnatural amidst the general stillness: brooks, like men, must keep themselves warm by exercise.