All 9 Uses of
tempered
in
Gone with the Wind
- They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.†
Chpt 1.1
- She was hot-tempered and easily plagued by the frequent scrapes of her four sons, and while no one was permitted to whip a horse or a slave, she felt that a lick now and then didn't do the boys any harm.†
Chpt 1.1
- If Charles had inherited any of the qualities of the stern, fearless, hot-tempered soldier who had been his father, they had been obliterated in childhood by the ladylike atmosphere in which he had been reared.†
Chpt 2.8
- Little bad-tempered Joe!†
Chpt 2.14 *
- In his mild-tempered way, Will had straightened out several difficulties of this kind and said nothing to her about them.†
Chpt 4.31
- Scarlett did not mean to be short tempered and she really wanted to make Frank a good wife, for she was fond of him and grateful for his help in saving Tara.†
Chpt 4.36
- His lovable bad-tempered little brother, penniless somewhere in the West.†
Chpt 4.39
- But she did not possess his sense of humor which tempered his malice, nor his smile that jeered at himself even while he was jeering others.†
Chpt 5.48
- He was bitter now, where he had been pleasantly jeering, brutal where his thrusts had once been tempered with humor.†
Chpt 5.60 *
Definitions:
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(tempered as in: short-tempered) having a typical mood or temperament -- often in reference to how easily one is angered
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(tempered as in: bad news tempered by kindness) made less extreme