The effort had been too prolonged--weakened nature reasserted her rights and he lost consciousness.

As they began mounting, their own natures reasserted themselves, though.

In small steps, nature has reasserted its rights at the old airport, which was turned over to the National Park Service in 1972.

Robustly and rather beautifully, nature has reasserted itself in the most ordinary way at this most extraordinary place.

Once nature reasserts its dominion, perhaps it would return to that idyllic state once more.

He came round slowly, stretching and grimacing, but his fundamental good nature soon reasserted itself.

But now his basically optimistic nature had reasserted itself: everything always worked out for the best.

But when Frances caught smallpox the following year Charles's basic good nature reasserted itself.

But nature has gradually reasserted itself at the dump since it closed.

Now that wizardry had failed, nature was reasserting itself with a vengeance.