Unnatural

Examples

• It threw a livid, unnatural circle upon the floor, while in the shadows beyond we saw the vague loom of two figures which crouched against the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Are we to be exposed to this unnatural conduct every moment of our lives? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I don't know what you may call this, but I call it unnatural conduct. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It seemed to be of an unnatural color, and to have a strange rigidity about the features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I have said, that the defects of her character awoke and acquired vigour from her unnatural position. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She could feel his body gradually relaxing a little, losing its terrifying, unnatural rigidity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I, hate it altogether, and I hate everybody except you,' said the unnatural young Thomas Gradgrind in the hair-cutting chamber at twilight. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Why such unnatural abstinence? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She must be the most unnatural mamma in existence, coolly to let her daughter come out in this weather. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The one thing is not more unnatural than the other. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I was some little way off, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• There is a vague belief abroad, that the beef suet with which he anoints his hair gives him unnatural strength, and that he is a match for a man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His presence was unnatural and ghostly to them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was painful to my heart to acknowledge a sister so unnatural, and it caused another relapse. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In the street the noise of wheels had ceased, and the rumble of the elevated came only at long intervals through the deep unnatural hush. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What has Mr. Frank Churchill done, to make you suppose him such an unnatural creature? Jane Austen. Emma.
• With him it was most unnatural. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You are unnatural, Clym, and I did not expect it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They seem to have felt that the lives and habits of these devotees were queer and unnatural. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I could teach; I could give lessonsbut to be either a private governess or a companion was unnatural to me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And she dreaded contact, it was almost unnatural to her at these times. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The infuriated beast, pulled up and backwards until he stood upon his hind legs, struggled impotently in this unnatural position. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It was a wild, hoarse scream, so strange and unnatural that it might have come either from a man or a woman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The next, 'The theory of the book is bad, full of morbid fancies, spiritualistic ideas, and unnatural characters. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A really good talk, she went on, smiling with what seemed to Archer an unnatural vividness. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The life she leads is morbid, unnatural. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The spirit of the pioneer does not survive forever: it is kept alive to-day, I believe, by certain unnatural irritants which may be summed up as absentee ownership. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Edited by Brent