429 adjectives to describe tempering

He still wore that look of dour ill-temper, and especially did he glower at the unfortunate Kaviak, seized with a fresh fit of coughing that filled the round eyes with tears.

But the license of unchecked power is dangerous, no less to those who wield than to those who suffer it; and it was peculiarly so to one of Richard's violent and impatient temper.

But Sir Adolphus, who had a very sweet temper, changed the discourse, grew playful, laughed at Lord Monboddo's notion of men having tails, and called him a Judge, à posteriori, which amused Dr. Johnson; and thus hostilities were prevented.

Such was his evil temper, that he set the steps at a dangerous hazard in the dark, in order that scholarswhose eyes are bleared at bestmight risk their legs to the end of time.

The debates proceeded, however, in better temper, and almost the only question that again gave rise to passionate argument was that of slavery.

Besides, his cheerful temper enabled him to make light of more grievous misfortunes than the getting of a loving wife and thrifty helpmeet ten years older than himself.

Louis pale as death, Polyphemus mad with sudden fear and his own ungovernable temper.

No sooner had he gone than Gíw rose up, and said, "Tús is little better than a madman, and my father of a hasty temper; I should therefore wish to follow, to prevent the possibility of further disagreement."

Her graceful manners and appearance had attracted him on his first acquaintance with her, and the favorable impression had been strengthened from day to day, as he acquired a more intimate knowledge of her thoughtful character and amiable temper: and it was not long ere he felt that his future happiness in life depended on her returning those sentiments with which she had inspired him.

Lord Herriefield was of a suspicious and harsh temper, the first propensity being greatly increased by his former associations, and the latter not being removed by the humility of his eastern dependants.

"You would hardly find in any family like ours a child with so irritable a temper or a disposition so selfish, and nowhere a creature so hardly treated by Nature in body as well as mind.

A young lady, two years his senior, of a lively and volatile temper, she enjoyed the stolen interviews at the gate between the grounds, and laughed at the ardent letters, passed through a confidant, of the still awkward youth whom she regarded as a boy.

But that the religious temper of England for the last two or three generations has been unfavourable to a sound and scientific development of natural theology, there can be no doubt.

Mademoiselle will pardon this domestic scene," he added, "the boy has an uncertain temper.

"No fellow has a warmer temper than Darry when he's aroused to righteous anger, but no fellow has a more generous temper at all times.

He wielded a vigorous pen and possessed a very irascible temper.

His tail swept the ground, and he was of the gentlest temper; in short, he was the most perfect creature ever seen.

At Being and Non-being fret not; but either with calm temper see: Non-being is the term appointed for the most lovely things that be.

it might be just nothing, after all; the poor lady might be ill, or vexed past endurance at home; or some unhappy love affair might have come to fret her proud, impatient, defiant temper.

He was a Catiline,an aristocratic demagogue, revolutionary in his spirit and aims; so that he was mistrusted, feared, and detested by the ruling powers, and by the aristocracy generally, while he was admired and flattered by the people, who were tolerant of his vices and imperious temper.

Awful temper she had.

His grumpy silence of other days, his sardonic humour, gave place to hypochondriac complainings and outbursts of fierce temper.

Adriana, the wife of Antipholis of Ephesus, was very angry, when she heard that her husband said he had no wife; for she was of a jealous temper, and she said her husband meant that he loved another lady better than herself; and she began to fret, and say unkind words of jealousy and reproach of her husband; and her sister Luciana, who lived with her, tried in vain to persuade her out of her groundless suspicions.

He was naturally of a very sanguine temper; and Thompson, his second-in-command, heartily approved of the dash.

The remembrance of Hugh's usual patronizing airs, together with his insulting language, was too much for Mark's impetuous temper.

429 adjectives to describe  tempering