timper

In 1840, the Canadian novelist Thomas Haliburton, in his dialect-rich The Clockmaker, had his Yankee character named Sam Slick say: All that talk about her timper was made out of whole cloth, and got up a-purpose….

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

In 1840, the Canadian novelist Thomas Haliburton, in his dialect-rich The Clockmaker, had his Yankee character named Sam Slick say: All that talk about her timper was made out of whole cloth, and got up a-purpose….

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

In 1840, the Canadian novelist Thomas Haliburton, in his dialect-rich The Clockmaker, had his Yankee character named Sam Slick say: All that talk about her timper was made out of whole cloth, and got up a-purpose….

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

In 1840, the Canadian novelist Thomas Haliburton, in his dialect-rich The Clockmaker, had his Yankee character named Sam Slick say: All that talk about her timper was made out of whole cloth, and got up a-purpose….

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

I was perfickly calm, an never losht me timper, an 'towld him I'd pull him off av the little harse if he'd not the lave to take him; an' he put the comether on me by cantherin 'off.

Mates at Billabong 1911

'Don't let yer bad timper make ye thry to commit suicide, Mr. Roberts,' sez he, and off he marched.

Charred Wood Francis Clement Kelley 1909

I'm in that throuble lately that me timper is all but gone. '

The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"She's sourish-like in her timper," Jimmy, Mr. Denny's head man, observed to his subordinate not long after the arrival, and the subordinate, tenderly stroking a bruised knee, replied: --

All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

I can't forget one Mrs. Grasset I worked for, ma'am, an 'her that miserable an' cryin 'all th' time, just because I had one of me bad timper spells.

The Cheerful Smugglers Ellis Parker Butler 1903

He shall be lost for _good_ now; an 'do ye mind that he's the very spit in shape an' size av the Colonel's, barrin 'that his tail is an inch too long, an' he has none av the color that divarsifies the rale Rip, an 'his timper is that av his masther an' worse.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900