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  • How well they knew where to look, and how many happy exclamations came from Master Sunshine as they discovered a clump of ferns just unfolding from the green balls in which Dame Nature had securely packed them.

    Master Sunshine C. F. Fraser

  • It may be attractive to be tall and slender, but somehow old Dame Nature has a way of keeping her pets humble.

    Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft

  • William, like Dame Nature, was full of life-sap, that circled through his body and brain with constant motion and sought an outlet for the surplus volume of ideal knowledge, in theatrical action, teaching lessons of right and wrong, with vice and virtue struggling forever for the mastery of mankind.

    Shakspere, Personal Recollections John A. Joyce

  • Probably the stanching of blood sometimes ascribed to the power of a verbal charm should be accredited to the _vis medicatrix_ of Dame Nature herself.

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

  • Mokwa was a much chastened bear, but the incident soon faded from his memory and he once more trod the forest trails as if they had been presented to him for his sole use by Dame Nature herself.

    Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer

  • My own warped intellect, belonging to a woman who must write stories for a living, points out that, if it has taken aeons of differentiation under the guidance of Dame Nature to accomplish my own personal physical disabilities, I can hardly afford to wait for aeons of differentiation under the guidance of Mr. George to accomplish my own personal physical freedom.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • She had fought against him, tooth and claw; but, cunning old Dame Nature had been on his side in the fight, and, of course, Nature had won.

    From out the Vasty Deep Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • Marayne, who saw a very different London from what he did, and his mother Dame Nature, who cannot see London at all.

    The Research Magnificent 1906

  • There is an island off a certain part of the coast of Maine, -- a little rocky island, heaped and tumbled together as if Dame Nature had shaken down a heap of stones at random from her apron, when she had finished making the larger islands which lie between it and the mainland.

    Captain January Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • Bright sunshine, a glittering river, waving trees, a glorious atmosphere, and dear old Dame Nature smiling a welcome.

    The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range George Manville Fenn 1870

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