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Examples
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I wonder how many minutes into the debate before McCain: 1. loses his temper,
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“Only,” said Amyas, trying hard to keep his temper,
Westward Ho! 2007
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It was at length arranged that we should live together during my stay in the city; and as my worldly circumstances were somewhat less embarrassed than his own, I was permitted to be at the expense of renting, and furnishing in a style which suited the rather fantastic gloom of our common temper,
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Having finished all his business, soaked through with the streams of water which kept running down the leather behind his neck and his gaiters, but in the keenest and most confident temper,
Anna Karenina 2003
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Thin, tight-laced, with a shrill voice and an acidulated temper,
Madame Midas 2003
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Other than staying away from Timeon until he was in better temper,
Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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"Mr. Lowry," says Lady Stafford, with much dignity but perfect temper,
Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
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"May I ask, Mr. Curzon," says she, with great dignity and more temper,
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Maulear, wounded that the cherished name of Aminta should be so cavalierly treated by Gaetano, replied with ill-disguised temper,
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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Finding you were inexorable, and knowing your ridiculously hasty temper,
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various
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