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Example sentences for "good temper"

  • He certainly can have no liking for the Rajahs of Berar or Kolapoore, for both of them assisted Nana to regain his power; and an attack upon them would, at once, satisfy vengeance and put his troops in a good temper.

  • Yes; there is no doubt that he thought more of your present of champagne, than of the gifts sent him by the Governor; and your promise to let him have a consignment, occasionally, will keep him in good temper.

  • It may not be today, because the rajah will be looking over his presents, and will be in a good temper; but tomorrow they will come in and kris us.

  • Cook was in a good temper, and let me do it.

  • It's only another guinea, and if father's in a good temper he's sure to say yes.

  • I felt in a good temper, and far from being angry I was strongly inclined to laugh.

  • As chance placed me next to my charmer at table, my spirits rose, and my numerous jests and stories put everybody in a good temper.

  • The abbe looked wretched, which made me in a good temper, and inclined me to be pleasant.

  • There was a good deal of laughter at my expense, and I let them laugh, as I felt certain that the whole thing had been contrived to turn me into derision, and wishing to make Esther love me I thought it best to stimulate a good temper.

  • Of all qualities, good temper is the one that wears and works the best in married life.

  • He did not look particularly pleased to see me, but I have never yet met a man who can pack and be in a good temper at the same time.

  • Fred, however, understood me, and it seems to me that I have always been very lucky in having one friend who never tried to make out that I was in a good temper when I was in a bad one.

  • Teachers and mothers can find scarcely any field more worthy of their thoughtful concentration than the cultivation of good temper in the girls under their care.

  • It may seem that definite instruction in such abstract qualities as good temper or stability or fairness is difficult or perhaps impossible to Secure.

  • They have to learn fairness, courtesy, good temper; honesty, kindness, sympathy.

  • Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath?

  • DEAR SIR:--Yours of the 23d is received, and I am constrained to say it is difficult to answer so ugly a letter in good temper.

  • I shall take it, I hope, in good temper, certainly with no malice toward any section.

  • A good temper is a necessary groundwork of it; and, if to this is added a good understanding, applied industriously to this purpose, I think it can hardly fail of attaining all that is essential in it.

  • A good temper is the next qualification; the value of which in a friend, you will want no arguments to prove, when you are truly convinced of the necessity of it in yourself, which I shall endeavour to show you in a following letter.

  • A good temper, too, if we may judge from the usual excuses for the want of it, is hardly regarded in the light of an attainable quality.

  • A good temper is too important a source of happiness, and an ill temper too important a source of misery, to be treated with indifference or hopelessness.

  • For a good temper, or a well-regulated temper, may be the constant homage of a truly religious man to that God, whose love and long-suffering forbearance surpass all human love and forbearance.

  • His good looks, unfortunately, like his good fortune and his good temper--poor man!

  • And next, Sam would be always in a good temper.

  • No,” said Leonard decidedly; “Sam would not always be in a good temper.

  • I open the purses at charity dinners, I send the people home in good temper.

  • He had thought a great deal about that deer, and had meant to get on his back to ride him as a horse, and go to see all the wonderful places the lion talked to him about when he was in a good temper.

  • At any rate it keeps them in a good temper.

  • I wish to find him in a good temper in the morning.

  • It may make a great difference in the fortunes of the young man whether Caesar is in a good temper or not when he receives him.

  • Let his son find good principles, good temper, and good looks, in a wife, and he would promise to find the money.

  • Let Philip find good principles, good temper, and good looks; and I promise beforehand to find the money.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good authority; good blood; good broth; good chance; good color; good earnest; good flavor; good government; good habits; good hotel; good hunter; good illustration; good paper; good people; good repute; good scholar; good shepherd; good sign; good space; good speech; good system; good taste; good town; good wench; goods sold; treating them