Which preposition to use with tempers

of Occurrences 579%

W. said both Dufaure and Decazes were quite wonderful, realising the state of affairs exactly, and knowing the temper of the house, which was getting more advanced every day and more difficult to manage.

with Occurrences 130%

He would be out of place, and out of uniform, as well as out of temper with himself, if he was for any considerable length of time without the stub of a marvelously black pipe in his mouth, filled with plug tobacco, shaved and rubbed in his hand into a proper condition for smoking.

in Occurrences 116%

He, flying on golden plumage throughout his realms, with such swiftness that his passage can hardly be discerned, visits them all in turn, and, bending his strong bow, to the drawn string he fits the arrows forged by me and tempered in the fountains sacred to my divinity.

to Occurrences 38%

In this quarter, at least, the wind shall be tempered to the reader,shorn as he is by these pages of a charming letter or two.

at Occurrences 29%

But his patience and his temper at last caved in, and seizing his opponent by the neck with his left hand, and thrusting him down upon the ground, he began very deliberately to cuff him with his right, in a way that seemed anything but pleasant to the individual upon whom his cuffs were bestowed.

as Occurrences 24%

To-day we find ourselves fighting side by side in the same campaign, we to redeem this territory from the Austrian yoke, you to maintain the liberty of your national existence from the German menace, both of us, moreover, to set the whole world free from the peril of falling under the dominion of that race, hard in temper as a granite rock, which finds in the Austro-Hungarian Empire a willing ally in its rapes and aggressions.

on Occurrences 24%

He had considerable difficulty in refraining from venting his temper on the poor, dumb furniture; in fact, he did give a kick to a pretty little writing-table.

than Occurrences 22%

" Many a time afterward these angry mutineers heard that sonorous, clear, boyish treble in stern and determined command; but they never heard it signalize a more heroic temper than at that moment, when, himself deeply wronged, he forced them to go back in the ranks to receive the interloper.

for Occurrences 20%

At that same day and hour, as it chanced, Lancelot, little dreaming what the said windmill was grinding for him, was scribbling a hasty and angry answer to a letter of Luke's, which, perhaps, came that very morning in order to put him into a proper temper for the demolishing of windmills.

by Occurrences 17%

Seriously offended at the discovery that he could not drop asleep in his own room, for a minute, without the music stopping and the accordion trying to slip off, the Ritualistic organist was not at all softened in temper by almost simultaneously realizing that the farther skirt of his long linen coat was standing out nearly straight from his person, and, apparently, fluttering in a heavy draught.

from Occurrences 13%

Some silent laws our hearts will make, Which they shall long obey: 30 We for the year to come may take Our temper from to-day.

over Occurrences 11%

Such is likely to be the fate of the question raised with so much temper over the Passion Music of that great man by the English critics.

under Occurrences 11%

They bear testimony, on the one hand, to Byron's capability of patience, and frequent sweetness of temper under trial; on the other, to Kennedy's utter want of humour, and to his courageous honesty.

like Occurrences 11%

I must, I doubt, have something in my temper like Miss Howe, who loves to plague the man who puts himself in her power.

about Occurrences 9%

He is much above ordinary size, and, though now gray-haired, would be extraordinarily handsome if it were not for an expression of ill-temper about the mouth.

into Occurrences 6%

Well for me that the "right to govern wrong" was to her a simple truthan inalienable marital privilege, to be met with that unqualified submission which must have shamed the worst temper into self-control.

towards Occurrences 5%

I may add, at the risk of sarcasm for the vanity, that in proof of his mellowed temper towards me, besides the kind frankness with which he received my friend, as already mentioned, he sent me word, by the Earl of Blesinton, that he had read my novel of The Entail three times, and thought the old Leddy Grippy one of the most living-like heroines he had ever met with.

of Occurrences 4%

When St. Paul is preaching to the Athenians, with what wonderful Art are almost all the different Tempers of Mankind represented in that elegant Audience?

before Occurrences 4%

But they burned our abandoned car in sheer ill temper before crowding us into their own.

toward Occurrences 4%

They had shown an ugly temper toward him in Sicily after the victory, and he feared they might create a disturbance again.

within Occurrences 3%

He has a strong temper within him, and he can redden up beautifully all over when his equanimity is disturbed.

without Occurrences 3%

Death, a vague film in an illimitable sky, tempered without obscuring the sunshine of her life.

against Occurrences 3%

Well aware of the jealous temper of the party dominant in the North, and anxious, above all things, to avoid exasperating that temper against his conquered countrymen, he carefully abstained from appearing in any public ceremony or taking any overt part in political questions.

among Occurrences 2%

It was a fine sight to see so much temper among so many valiant folk, for, great as was the number and the mixture of different nationalities, no one was insulted or maltreated, though the contrary is often the case among men in small numbers and known one to another.

above Occurrences 1%

Also, how others, without a temper above "tips," and of a generally gentlemanly tone of mind, save themselves lots of little extras, which, maybe, the letter of the law would exact, but which a Surveyor of sense and good feeling can get over, "and no harm done, neither, to nobody."

Which preposition to use with  tempers