All 4 Uses of
tempered
in
Bleak House
- I am not clever at my needle, yet," said Caddy, glancing at the repairs on Peepy's frock, "but perhaps I shall improve, and since I have been engaged to Prince and have been doing all this, I have felt better-tempered, I hope, and more forgiving to Ma.†
Chpt 13-15
- It rather put me out at first this morning to see you and Miss Clare looking so neat and pretty and to feel ashamed of Peepy and myself too, but on the whole I hope I am better-tempered than I was and more forgiving to Ma.†
Chpt 13-15
- I was a good-enough-tempered man once, I believe.†
Chpt 13-15
- Be equally good-tempered to me, old boy!†
Chpt 22-24 *
Definition:
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(tempered as in: bad news tempered by kindness) made less extreme