Governor Nicholson had come from New York not many months before with a great repute for ill-temper and harsh dealing; but I liked the look of his hard-set face and soldierly bearing, and I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.

The sun was yet an hour high in the heavens when we found a hiding-place overlooking the camp, and so easy of accomplishment had been our task, with nothing of danger attaching to it, that I was heartily ashamed of having displayed ill-temper in the sergeant's presence.

Not in the mere grace of youth, which pleases the fancy at first; that must soon fade; and then comes, too often, coldness between man and wife; neglect, rudeness, ill-temper, because the grace of life is not therethe grace of the inner life, of the immortal soul, which alone makes life pleasant, even tolerable, to two people who are bound together for better or for worse.

His birth could not fail to cause ill-temper and mistrust in Louis' three sons by Hermengarde, who were already kings.

Once satisfied she need fear neither ill-temper nor arrogance from her new mistress, she indulged an even and constant flow of artless high spirits, her amusing, clipped English affording Sofia considerable entertainment together with not a little food for thought.

How often is wealth wedded to poverty, beauty to ugliness, and amiability to ill-temper!

The people were, and with good reason, in much anxiety for some hours after: but the little fit of ill-temper went off, having vented itself, as is well known, in the sea between St. Thomas's and Santa Cruz, many miles away.

His friends found him always cheerful; and his calm features,in which a dignity and thoughtfulness of spirit contrasted with the bloom and beauty of a pure and honourable boyhood,were never overshadowed with ill-temper or with gloom.

Even Mary did not escape his ill-temper.

This, Sir, is a very mortifying Sight to me, who am a little necessitous for Cloaths, and loves to appear what I am, and causes an Uneasiness, so that I can't serve with that Chearfulness as formerly; which my Mistress takes notice of, and calls Envy and Ill-Temper at seeing others preferred before me.

She shrugged away his hand without ill-temper.

Raymond took his stand without ill-temper or apology: he simply argued from inveterate precedent.

For as for your saying that I am in the habit of arguing against you with ill-temper, that is not the case.

The farmer had much ill-temper, laziness, and shirking, to endure from his hand-sawyers until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall; and the river never tires of turning his wheel; the river is good-natured, and never hints an objection.

v. I) a scene in which her ill-temper was so ludicrous that the divorce which took place afterwards needs no explanation.

First comes the flesh: fleshly, carnal pride at being thwarted; fleshly, carnal longing for a thing, which longs all the more for it because one cannot have it; fleshly, carnal peevishness and ill-temper, at not having just the pleasant thing one happens to like.

When we are most calm, most humble, most free from ill-temper and self-conceit, most busy about our rightful work, then the feeling comes over usI have a Father in heaven.

Their masters, when in ill-temper, had used rough language and inflicted chance blows, but no one ever told me that he had suffered from systematic cruelty or been severely whipped, except Joe, whose character I have given.

But eminent reformers have been now for more than seven years going about the walls of the Social Jericho, blowing their own trumpets and shoutingwith such small result beyond incidental displays of ill-temper within, that it is hard to recover the fine hopefulness of those departed days.

If a man who is otherwise lovable and admirable has occasional outbursts of spiteful and vicious ill-temper, it is possible to love him, because one can conceive of him without the particular fault.

The farmer had much ill-temper, laziness, and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until, one day, he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall; and the river never tires of turning his wheel: the river is good-natured, and never hints an objection.

Aren't you glad you're alive?" Where was his ill-temper?

"We can go back, if you desire it," said Richard, with a shade of sternness in his voice, stopping the horses suddenly, after two miles of what would have been ill-temper if we had been married, but was now perhaps only petulance.

"She must suffer: so do all;" she would undoubtedly have a hard future, no matter to which of these men who were so absurd about her, Fate finally accorded her: hard, if she married Richard without loving him (nobody knew better than Sophie how hard that sort of marriage was); hard, if she married the German, to suffer a lifetime of poverty and ill-temper and jealous fury.

Her remonstrances, I am ashamed to confess, only had the effect of increasing my ill-temper.