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It is wholly unartificial: for years no human hand has touched it, except as mine did when, on dismounting and undertaking to pick my way over the rocks, I found myself on all-fours.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

Of true relig57ious ideal, representing events historically recorded, with solemn effort at a sincere and unartificial conception, there exist, as yet, hardly any examples.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John

And I like his style: it is unartificial and bears the stamp of manly sincerity. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph

But it was probably not of Chatterton’s vocabulary that Keats was thinking, but rather of the unartificial, straightforward flow of his verse in contrast with Milton’s.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

The first remark which would be made on reading them relates to their brevity, the breadth of the rules which they lay down, and their plain and unartificial mode of stating them.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry