"Artificialness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... himself through a forest, would not have been startled to find growing wild, as if an unearthly face had glared at him out of the thicket. Several also would have shocked a delicate instinct by an appearance of artificialness indicating that there had been such commixture, and, as it were, adultery, of various vegetable species, that the production was no longer of God's making, but the monstrous offspring of man's depraved fancy, glowing with only ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne |
