"By nature" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had become thoroughly accustomed to the dim light and as he turned back he stopped and his heart beat with something almost akin to fright. Now our friend James Darlington was not superstitious by nature, but if that dim, silvery white figure was not a ghost, what in Sam Hill could ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt
... opening his mouth wide immediately, but I checked him. "I would see this great man," said I to the landlord, "but I am so timid by nature I fear to meet his eagle eye. Is there no way by which we could observe him ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane
... such ears? One cannot even find fault with the tiny round hole which they leave when they are taken out; perhaps water-nixies, and such lovely things without souls, have these little round holes in their ears by nature, ready to hang jewels in. And Hetty must be one of them: it is too painful to think that she is a woman, with a woman's destiny before her—a woman spinning in young ignorance a light web of folly and vain hopes which may one day close round ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... of experimental gifts, and unfitted by nature for accurate observation, but strong almost beyond competition in speculative subtlety and innate ...
— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge
... of the soul, for the body is by nature corruptible. He says, also, that even the prophecies were derived from those princes who made the world, but the law was especially given by their chief, who led the people out of the land of Egypt. He attaches no importance ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.
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