Tempered

Examples

• And what a sweet-tempered forehead he has! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She is pretty, and she is good tempered, and that is all. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You must not be angry with me, my friend, he said volubly; I am like a child, and grow bad-tempered over nothing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Miret, the short-tempered and kind-hearted bookseller, who had so kindly found me a seat that eventful night in the park. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Jane, I am not a gentle-tempered man--you forget that: I am not long- enduring; I am not cool and dispassionate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,--a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He fell back a few steps, and looked at me with an expression of compassionate curiosity, tempered by superstitious awe. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But my children are all good-tempered, thank God. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Meg is a great comfort to me and lets me have jelly every night at tea its so good for me Jo says because it keeps me sweet tempered. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And with all this, the sweetest tempered person (I allude to Mr. Godfrey)--the simplest and pleasantest and easiest to please--you ever met with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Everybody thinks me crabbed and odd (with perfect justice); and everybody thinks her sweet-tempered and charming (with more justice still). Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I myself acknowledge to have been fidgety and ill-tempered. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Now the balance spring of a watch is made from steel, and is carefully tempered in order to obtain its highest elasticity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He passed for an Englishman, was agreeable, handsome, ill-tempered, hospitable and witty. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In the waters of a new life I had tempered my nature afresh. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A good-tempered, freely-living man? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It means that you and I together have brought the worst-tempered man in all England to his senses, answered the Count. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Steel wire is now tempered and annealed by electricity, as well as welding done, of which mention further on will be made. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He was rather severe with the men and, I fancy, ill-tempered, and he was a decided fop, as I think I have before mentioned. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And away went the good-tempered old fellow down the slide, with a rapidity which came very close upon Mr. Weller, and beat the fat boy all to nothing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• For seven years Fulton lived with them, busy about the most diverse matters, and always keenly interested in the struggles of the new and hot-tempered republic. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Are you quick, good-tempered, honest, handy, &c. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In it is coiled the mainspring--a strip of steel about twenty-three inches long, which is carefully tempered to insure elasticity and pull. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You are so good, and so sweet-tempered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There was possibly much local variation, the rule of violent bullies here and a good-tempered freedom there, famine this year and plenty the next. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He tempered the barbaric ferocity of his masters, and saved innumerable cities and works of art from destruction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She thought he was really good-tempered, and could fancy his entering into a plan of that sort most pleasantly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• France was in his hand, his instrument, to do with as he pleased, willing for peace, but tempered for war like an exquisite sword. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He posed as a king, but his ruling passion was that common obsession of our kind, the pursuit of women, tempered by a superstitious fear of hell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Edited by Laurence