Bad Temper

She ran out into the dark and rain-drenched garden, felt her way to an old and battered seat that had seen in older days dolls 'tea-parties and the ravages of bad-temper, stared from it across the kitchen-garden to the lights of the village, that seemed to rock and shiver in the wind and rain. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)

It was true that he had been a failure as a curate, but that made the Dean the more anxious to be kind now to his memory, he -- Mr. Jones -- having just died of general bad-temper and selfishness. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)

Diminutive in person, bad-temper became him ill; besides, his whole education and tastes were opposed to scenes of violence. ❋ James Huneker (1890)

"O nothing further than that I am sufficiently burdened with your natural bad-temper already, without having it increased by the aid of another." ❋ Emilie Flygare-Carle��n (1849)

I’m sick of your perpetual bad-temper, and your eternal slf-righteousness.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

"You take all my bad-temper always just in the same quiet way. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Upper Egypt says: "He loved his father, he honored his mother, he loved his brethren, and never went from his home in bad-temper. ❋ James Freeman Clarke (1849)