"Unnatural" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which are more or less unhappy ones. There is frequently an attitude towards them combined of wonder, misgiving, fear, aversion—a vague feeling or belief that the deaf are more or less distinct in their thoughts and actions from other people, that they are somehow "unnatural" or "uncanny."[137] ...
— The Deaf - Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their - Education in the United States • Harry Best
... hang down on each side by their own weight. With its curious feathers and misshapen body, the young bird is anything but handsome. They never open their mouths when approached, as many young birds do, but sit perfectly still, hardly moving when touched." He also notes the unnatural indifference of the mother bird when her nest and young are approached. She makes no sound, but sits quietly on a near branch in apparent ...
— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs
... "that there's a great difference between reviving and retaining; it may be natural to retain, even while the use fails, unnatural to revive when it has failed; but this is a question ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman
... his chair and seated himself. His face was curiously white. It was in an unnatural voice that he said: "How old ...
— The Cost • David Graham Phillips
... with articles for barter, as he had taken them off to the ships, with the assistance of two natives of Cuba. Near the place of the engagement, there were three buildings of stone and lime, in which were several idols of clay in strange unnatural postures, with diabolical countenances, and several wooden chests containing smaller idols, some vessels, three diadems, and several figures of birds and fish, all of ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III. • Robert Kerr
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