Gay vivacity and grim determination, the temperament of a Louis XIV, and the soul of a Cromwell, are the crystallizations of these chemical substances acting upon the brain.

What he was thanking her for is not precisely clear, but she knew that the artistic temperament is an odd sort of thing, and from this time Lady Rintoul liked Tommy, and even tried to find the right wife for him among the families of the surrounding clergy.

"Such a temperament is the only solid foundation of all moral virtues and sociable endowments.

The temperament which in our modern days has been called the mediïstic, and which with us is only exceptional, is more or less a race-peculiarity of Southern climates, and gives that objectiveness to the conception of spiritual things from which grew up a whole ritual and a whole world of religious Art.

At all events, his subdued and chastened temperament was no unworthy preparation for still greater blessings.

The temperament of W's father was diametrically the reverse of his own.

Such men, such women, are not necessarily depraved or immoral persons, their temperament may be a source of genuine distress to them.

The Thurstons had temperament, and temperament is quite often the highway to the divorce court.

A quiet and cheerful temperament, happy in the enjoyment of a perfectly sound physique, an intellect clear, lively, penetrating and seeing things as they are, a moderate and gentle will, and therefore a good consciencethese are privileges which no rank or wealth can make up for or replace.

Unfortunately, however, Don Gusman's temperament was the very opposite of his father's; he was tyrannical, harsh, headstrong, and bigoted.

Temperament is just as much a fact as physique.

All would admit, for instance, that his temperament was the temperament of genius.