lusus naturae

How to use lusus naturae in a sentence

• If there is in fact no such, he is, in his high attainment, almost a lusus naturae.

  The Brothers' War | John Calvin Reed

• The palm tree seems a kind of lusus naturae to the northern eye—an exotic wherever you meet it.

  To Cuba and Back | Richard Henry Dana

• The semblance of a human face to be formed on the side of a mountain, or in the fracture of a small stone, by a lusus naturae.

  Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 | Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The gossips all turn from the task of nibbling one another, and the character of the lusus naturae becomes public property.

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, Issue 404, December 12, 1829 | Various

• I may mention here that male kangaroos are sometimes found provided with pouches; but these, I conceive, are lusus naturae.

  The Bushman | Edward Wilson Landor