His energy he tempered with all the tact and discretion his knowledge of men, and his experience in handling them, had taught him.
Up above him the light filtered down, tempered by the slab under which he had come, and enabled him still to find precarious hand and foot hold.
But this is not very strange, as the large amount of fir resin which is still added to most Greek wines, makes them too strong and bitter for the civilized palate to drink unless tempered by water.
Then he critically scrutinized the ill-proportioned figure of the ugly-tempered brave.
You don't tell me that good, pious parson is consortin' with that bad-tempered Indian squaw!
This was the impression he got of them--a generalization tempered by knowledge that there was bound to be a certain percentage of scoundrels among them.
What was required to control him was a strong hand, with tempered sternness and yet with the requisite touch of brutal dominance.
She tried to speak with absolute calm indifference, tempered by good-will.
She would be quite justified now in relaxing from the exalted serenity, tempered with due humility, of a spiritual instructress, and referring to the minor consolations of this earth.
There isn't a better-tempered creature in the world than Polly Anne.
But really the child understood more than she ascribed to her, and felt its injustice, tempered by the broad consideration that it was only Aunt Stingy.
She was a little quick-tempered and impulsive; but she soon recovered herself.
She was a good-tempered woman, and seldom indulged in sarcasm; but things had gone wrong that morning, and her young secretary had made several mistakes.
The heavy storms had tempered the great heat, and though the sky was cloudless and the sunshine brilliant, the trees meeting overhead gave them a pleasant shade, and a soft, refreshing breeze blew in their faces.
The heavy storm had tempered the extreme heat and the night had been comparatively cool, and the little group gathered round the breakfast table the next morning looked as bright as the day itself.
They had sat in the first General Assembly ever summoned in America; and through the generations they had fought always on the side of liberty tempered by discipline, of democracy exalted by patriotism.
As he passed into the richly tempered glow of the hall, it seemed to him that an invisible force, an aroma of the past, drifted out of the old house and enveloped him like the sweetness of flowers.
But the fire of the poet is vain, if the mind of his reader is not tempered like his own, however it may be inferior to his in power.
A feeling sotempered as that of esteem, he despised, and would have despised himself also had he thought himself capable of being flattered by it.
It was of uncommon beauty, and was characterized by an expression of sweetness, shaded with sorrow, and tempered by resignation.
Having looked hastily round the first room, where nothing appeared to justify alarm, they passed on to the second; and, here too all being quiet, they proceeded to a third with a more tempered step.
Recovered from her first surprise, she answered him with a tempered smile; but a variety of opposite emotions still assailed her heart, and struggled to subdue the mild dignity of her manner.
It was the wild uproar of riot, not the cheering gaiety of tempered mirth; and seemed to come from that part of the castle, where Montoni usually was.
But the keenness of the scrutiny--for it was nothing more nor less--was tempered by a smile.
Sir John would have liked him beyond anything; he is so good-tempered at cards, and he was such a man for cards, was Sir John.
This undertaking has hitherto been prosperous; the swords are celebrated for the excellence of their blades, which are of finely tempered steel.
It is said by some that the blades were tempered in winter only, and that when they were withdrawn for the last time from the furnace, the smiths would shake them in the air at great speed three times on a very cold day.
There is a good-tempered playfulness about the piece, a fund of splendid nonsense, which suggest the fellow-citizen of Apuleius rather than the presbyter.
Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute; Tempered to the oaten flute Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long; 35 And old Damoetas loved to hear our song.
Why, you must surely have known his majesty to be the best tempered man in his dominions then, or you would never have played off such a ruse, though I must say, there never was anything better done.
And if he was bad-tempered and unkind to other people, it made other people unkind and bad-tempered to him, but nothing could make Kathleen unkind to anybody.
His heart, Hormiguero frequently told him, was like a sponge; he wasn't tempered to the commanding of death.
The excitement came from her extraordinary personality, an intensity temperedwith a remoteness, an indifference, which he specially enjoyed after the last few tempestuous days.
Above them stretches a ceiling of soft color scheme in delicate pink and blue and from this canopy sixty-two ceiling lights shed down a tempered radiance from globes suggestive of inverted golden blossoms.
The elderly woman whose sternness of view had been tempered by neither maternity nor breadth of experience shook her head.
The cold was not intense even in the heart of winter, while the heat of summer was tempered by the shade of the rocks, and of the woods which surrounded it.
Her strictness with her spiritual children, thoughtempered by love, was extreme.
Their grief was tempered with joy, for they felt she was in heaven; though the pang of separation was keen, and their home on earth desolate.
His voice of spirited suavity startled her from a waking dream of power tempered by policy, ambitions achieved through adulation of men.
Lying awake in darkness until darkness was dimly tempered by the formless dusk that long foreruns the dawn, he communed gravely with his troubled heart.
The joking habit extended as far down as Florence, even as Siena, and at Naples I had found cabmen who tempered their predacity with bonhomie.
I fancy them preoccupied with the in-doors cold, so great in all Italian galleries, and scarcely tempered for them by the remote and solitary brazier over which the custodians take turns in stifling themselves.
No one else, indeed, gave him anything, and he seemed rather surprised by mytempered munificence.
There were no lovers' quarrels; Robert Lyon had chosen that best blessing next to a good woman, a sweet tempered woman; and there was no reason why they should quarrel more as lovers than they had done as friends.
These good-tempered and warm-hearted girls had been at first sadly afflicted about their brother's conduct; but this last care concerning him was now six weeks old, and had been dismissed from their minds.
The Cathedral aroused certain enthusiasms tempered by disgust at the tawdry embellishments of the interior.
Chief amongst them perhaps was veneration for the Bishop, who ruled his diocese with doctrinal severity temperedby gifts of port wine and tea and beef.
The crying helps to make the baby ill-tempered and fretful.
Unless love is tempered by understanding it is as lethal as poison.
If they do not get it at once they become ill-tempered and cry until attention is given.
