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I refer to slavery, Mistuh Comber, which they affect to abominate, but which we of the South hold to be a nat'ral condition which, for better or worse, is inevitable A strangled oath came from within Clotho's hood.

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There was plenty of folks as give him the character of a nat'ral born fool, an 'they may have been right.

Smethurstses 1995

He'd set, out the collection in the room he'd hired, an 'then he'd gone out in the old wanderin' way, an 'he hadn't hardly stepped into the street before he comes on a crowd gathered around somethin' near a lamp-post; so he stops nat'ral, an, makes inquiries.

Smethurstses 1995

I refer to slavery, Mistuh Comber, which they affect to abominate, but which we of the South hold to be a nat'ral condition which, for better or worse, is inevitable

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

I refer to slavery, Mistuh Comber, which they affect to abominate, but which we of the South hold to be a nat'ral condition which, for better or worse, is inevitable A strangled oath came from within Clotho's hood.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

Well, havin 'had company for so long, it was nat'ral as Joe should feel lonely-like after this, an' now an 'then get a trifle down-hearted.

Smethurstses 1995

Such a portrait cannot be to everybody what the ungloved call "as nat'ral as life."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

Not in no _shape_, for a man beholdeth his nat'ral _shape_ in a glass; nor in no _manner_, for he straightway forgetteth what manner o 'man he was.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

Positions of trust come jest as nat'ral to him as reefin 'in a gale of wind.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

It wa'n't the want of objects to like and love ashore that gave him courage; it was his nat'ral mind.

Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser