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  • He dressed well but was approximately as eventempered and territorial as a grizzly.

    The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010

  • He dressed well but was approximately as eventempered and territorial as a grizzly.

    The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010

  • He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Willie says he would have grown up to be a pretty eventempered guy if it hadn't been for the way he was woke up as a kid.

    Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992

  • -- He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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