1 In spite of the gloominess of nature around him, he felt peculiarly eager.
2 Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature.
3 I know," she interrupted him, "how hard it is for your truthful nature to lie, and I grieve for you.
4 Except deceit and lying nothing could come of it now; and deceit and lying were opposed to his nature.
5 He painted studies from nature under the guidance of an Italian professor of painting, and studied mediaeval Italian life.
6 "I imagine that such a view has a foundation in the very nature of things," he said, and would have gone on to the drawing room.
7 She vividly recalled his manly, resolute face, his noble self-possession, and the good nature conspicuous in everything towards everyone.
8 Vronsky could not understand how she, with her strong and truthful nature, could endure this state of deceit, and not long to get out of it.
9 It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile.
10 He had only not to refuse things, not to show jealousy, not to be quarrelsome or take offense, all of which from his characteristic good nature he never did.
11 On Thursday the wind dropped, and a thick gray fog brooded over the land as though hiding the mysteries of the transformations that were being wrought in nature.
12 The proof that they knew for a certainty the nature of death lay in the fact that they knew without a second of hesitation how to deal with the dying, and were not frightened of them.
13 Either because his nature was sympathetic to Levin, or because Levin was trying to atone for his sins of the previous evening by seeing nothing but what was good in him, anyway he liked his society.
14 It was as though he assumed a high degree of importance in himself that could not be disputed, because he had long nails and a stylish cap, and everything else to correspond; but this could be forgiven for the sake of his good nature and good breeding.
15 The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
16 But for life they yielded nothing, and Levin felt suddenly like a man who has changed his warm fur cloak for a muslin garment, and going for the first time into the frost is immediately convinced, not by reason, but by his whole nature that he is as good as naked, and that he must infallibly perish miserably.
17 She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy, and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but, in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it, Alexey Alexandrovitch never passed over anything in the world of art, but made it his duty to read everything.
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