high-tempered

• “This insouciant, high-tempered, gay, and thoughtless disposition, conducted Rene, free from all the passions which embitter life, and often shorten it, to a hale and mirthful old age.”

  Anne of Geierstein

• ““Both were high-tempered,” wrote Boyd, “and occasionally there was a row, with Buckingham getting the best of it.””

  Simon & Schuster: Cavalryman of the Lost Cause

• “As high-tempered as I am, I probably would not have done that.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2007

• “The children of Fiyero and his wife, Sarima, were high-tempered, and they had persuaded Liir to sit on one end of a timber that they intended to pivot out over a pile of hay below.”

  Son of a Witch

• “Being a high-tempered man he had requested her to mind her own business, and she had taken him at his word.”

  The Portrait of a Lady

• “What the Sylvan was about to demand, Xylina never discovered, for at that moment, Ware's horse, a high-tempered beast who did not suffer the hand of anyone but his master upon him, reacted.”

  If I Pay Thee Not In Gold

• “My friend Tinnie Tate, professional high-tempered redhead.”

  Old Tin Sorrows

• “Cadfael had seen him once or twice in Shrewsbury, a gross, self-important man in his late forties, running to fat, ponderous of movement, and surely no match for that restless, active, high-tempered woman standing grim-faced over her son's hier.”

  The Hermit of Eyton Forest

• “The Queen Dowager nee Fu was an indomitable and high-tempered woman, who would not easily yield up her opportunity for power and prestige.”

  The History of the Former Han Dynasty

• “The one noticeable difference between the two was that Frank was high-tempered and quick, whereas Jack was always cool and collected.”

  The Boy Allies Under the Sea

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