The robber, and the murderer, would often escape unpunished, did not the injuries which our tempers sustain, provoke us into justice.
Tempers were ground to a razor-edge; words dropped crudely; anger flamed to meet anger.
She's so strong and so violent in her tempers that when she gets drinking--well, it's just awful.
I will believe there are happy tempers in being, to whom all the good that arrives to any of their fellow-creatures gives a pleasure.
Tis generally allowed necessary, for the peace of company, that men should a little study the tempers of each other; but certainly that must be in order to shun what's offensive, not to make it a constant entertainment.
One said this morning, that the chief lot he was confident would fall upon some puppy; but this gentleman is one of those wrong tempers who approve only the unhappy, and have a natural prejudice to the fortunate.
Somehow married people seemed to get on together, even when their tastes, and talents, and tempers differed.
They seldom lost their tempers when he was there, as they sometimes did on less favoured occasions.
This a pretty good figure of the tempers of two reigning toasts with regard to one another.
Nor was he less acceptable to the more secular tempers who guided Elizabeth's counsels.
Such a longing seized as much on tender and poetic tempers like George Herbert's as on positive and prosaic tempers, such as that of Laud.
On the other were the conservative tempers who in the dread of such demands were beginning to see in the course of the Parliament a threat against the Church which they loved.
They often provoke poor Diana when setting out for the chase, and sacrifice her to their bad tempers on their return!
Then tempers began to wear away, and men fell a-brooding over insults real or imaginary, for they had nothing else to think of.
Good laws may beget order and moderation in the government, where the manners and customs have instilled little humanity or justice into the tempers of men.
Understand well the different tempers of your inferiors, and deal with them as they are, and as they can bear; and not with all alike.
Therefore the cases of several persons do much differ according to the different tempers of their minds, and bodies, and affairs.
These are the men whose tempers compromise us,' said she thoughtfully.
You know far better than me how far party spirit tempers life in this country, and are better able to say whether some private intention to insult is couched under this attempt.
There are, however, constitutions and tempers to which the atmosphere of a nunnery seems natural and congenial.
The strict, unbending maxims of the Jansenists, by urging persons of all characters and tempers to an imaginary goal of perfection, bring quickly their whole system to the decision of experience.
But London is large; the tempers and thoughts of men are as numerous as the houses; there is room for all, and lines of affinity for all.
They are all well-dressed and for the most part have their tempers under control.
These tempers are for the most part lions in the way difficult to propitiate.
I wouldn't try to ride two horses of such differenttempers at the same time.
The fact is, Alma, we both lost our tempers a bit, and no good ever comes of that.
Those who have established Physiognomy into an Art, and laid down Rules of judging Mens Tempers by their Faces, have regarded the Features much more than the Air.
There chanced to be a great Physiognomist in his Time at Athens, [9] who had made strange Discoveries of Mens Tempers and Inclinations by their outward Appearances.
The dryness of the air tempers exceedingly to the senses the cold of winter and the heat of summer.
The dryness of the air tempers the heat of summer, which reaches in January a mean maximum of 87 deg.
I think I shall be able to keep off the tempers when I have a right in the cross.
She did not dare to expostulate, lest she should exasperate the tempers that she had roused.
I am afraid the tempers are a part of your physical constitution,' he returned, mournfully.
Let us turn now from the measures to the substance and tempers of the poetry.
And these tempers were embittered by the cruel selfishness of the new monarch and his reckless injustice.
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