How To Use ill temper In A Sentence
- There are too many elements in the system that will temper that. Times, Sunday Times
- Not merely daring and endurance but better still temper, self-restraint, fairness, honour, unenvying approbation of another's success and all that give and take of life which stands a man in good stead when he goes forth into the world. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
- Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings in her case, whether ecclesiastical or civil. A History of American Christianity
- The wind howls through the trees, the wind chill temperature must be low, and I have no clothes on.
- For others, especially the young and foolish, the state will temper justice with mercy.
- I make a visual assessment as I move, but carry an anemometer, with a built-in thermometer, to gauge the wind speed and its direction, along with the air temperature and wind-chill temperature.
- Do not imitate those of your sex who by ill temper make a husband pay dear for their fidelity; let virtue in you be drest in smiles; and be assured that chearfulness is the native garb of innocence. The History of Emily Montague
- Always remember, however, that sea breezes will temper the heat and might cool things considerably.
- Within days my energy levels pick up, and my tendency to ill temper and irritability fades away.
- For others, especially the young and foolish, the state will temper justice with mercy.