Distempered

The latter comprised three cooks to the gangs, one of whom had lost a hand; a groom, three hog tenders, of whom one was ruptured, another "distempered" and the third a ten-year-old boy, and ten aged idlers including Quashy Prapra and Abba's Moll to mend pads, Yellow's Cuba and ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)

There were wall bookcases with glass doors, a few oak-framed engravings with a pale-green, "distempered" background, several chintz-covered sofas with cushions, and plenty of easy chairs. ❋ Unknown (1901)

It lay there in a wide distempered circle and then gathered itself together to jam at my feet and to giggle and to whee, and to laugh and to fall again into a puddle and to flatten out like pancake batter on a griddle...flat, but gelatin like, to pull in and regroup and to come at me again. ❋ Calib Donigan (2012)

April had always seemed to be one of the most miserable months in the calender to her'the weather was hideously distempered, changing every few moments, and all of the changes unpleasant. ❋ Ryn Cricket (2010)

Even in my distempered state, that sounded damned odd. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The walls were cream distempered, and the paint was grey. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He started walking farther up the beach, toward the Liquidora, a circling, chaotic eddy of currents the locals avoided and which was particularly distempered this evening. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

On exactly the same grounds, would we bid our readers avoid works of distempered excitement; even when such are of the highest excellence in their class, as those of Ellis Bell and ❋ Unknown (2010)

As you may recall, Obama's fans quickly established a reputation of acting like brain-damaged weasels or rabid squirrels or distempered hyenas or crazed dingos or foul-mouthed Philistines or huns, or other such creatures. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was only a single, negative review, in "The Examiner," whose critic called the pictures "the wild effusions of a distempered brain." ❋ Unknown (2009)

But as there are men who cannot read Pickwick, so they were not wanting who spoke of Dreams of the distempered fancy of the ❋ Unknown (2006)

In 1679, for instance, Anne Grenville, the youngest daughter of the Bishop of Durham, was placed in the charge of a Worcester physician who was famous for the ordering of distempered persons. ❋ Catharine Arnold (2008)

All hoods removed, members of the expedition plodding in endless matching step, trailed by distempered dogs oozing from the eyes. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

This gives us just the flash we want; it reveals to us for a moment the distempered youth, almost incorporeal, displayed wandering about at twilight and in lonely places, held in common esteem to be malevolent, and expressing by gestures rather than by words sentiments of a nature far from complimentary or agreeable. ❋ Unknown (2008)