| 1. | "Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven't your equal," said he. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | I have not known the man to whose innate kindliness I would more confidently make an appeal. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 3. | Work never made an actress and work never made a singer where innate talent for these arts was lacking. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 4. | When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 5. | Pearl's inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter seemed an innate quality of her being. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 6. | But no brutality disgusted her I suppose she has an innate admiration of it, if only her precious person were secure from injur. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 7. | Conscience is the quantity of innate science which we have within us.. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | We live for happiness and each type finds its greatest happiness in following those innate urges determined by the most highly-developed system in its makeup. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 9. | Man's actions proceed from his innate character and the motives acting upon him. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |