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usual mood and tendencies that come from qualities of mind and character
- He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.Chapter 10 -- The Leech and his Patient (44% in)
- She had borne that morning all that nature could endure; and as her temperament was not of the order that escapes from too intense suffering by a swoon, her spirit could only shelter itself beneath a stony crust of insensibility, while the faculties of animal life remained entire.Chapter 3 -- The Recognition (96% in)
- At this wild and singular appeal, which indicated that Hester Prynne's situation had provoked her to little less than madness, the young minister at once came forward, pale, and holding his hand over his heart, as was his custom whenever his peculiarly nervous temperament was thrown into agitation.Chapter 8 -- The Elf-child and the Minister (61% in)
- Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man.Chapter 10 -- The Leech and his Patient (0% in)
- Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in his mood.Chapter 18 -- A Flood of Sunshine (42% in)
- Or perchance his sensitive temperament was invigorated by the loud and piercing music that swelled heaven-ward, and uplifted him on its ascending wave.Chapter 22 -- The Procession (26% in)
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