As the days went by and they grew weaker, their peevishness and ill-temper increased, which, in turn, increased the ill-treatment and sufferings of O'Brien. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Personally I quite like these games: away matches in Europe are always interesting, Bursaspor are a treat that has yet to lose its novelty - check out the tricky Servan Yıldırım – and it does all make a change from the hustle and yelping and incestuous ill-temper of the Premier League. ❋ Barney Ronay (2010)
He was all over me again, excusing his ill-temper at the White House as mere frenzy of disappointment; I was the truest of friends, rallying to his side when all others had forsaken him, I was a tower of strength and comfort-what, I would come west with him, even? ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)
A flash of ill-temper when he was a teenager saw him ditched by Arsenal but there is now a fair prospect, 10 years on from the expulsion, that he will win his first England cap at some stage in the friendly with France . ❋ Kevin McCarra (2010)
The people I meet today are ready to discuss their difference without ill-temper; even men who fought against each other twelve years ago can exchange memories without hate. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)
Instead of being insistent yet tempered, his insistence comes across as ill-temper. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My grandfather was a terror; his ill-temper had the shortest of fuses. ❋ VICTORIA GOTTI (2009)
The merchant returned his salute, but in ill-temper, and the other, seeing him vexed, said, “O my lord, what hath crossed thee?” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Back in 1976 David Steel, a tough political knife-fighter, knew that his opponent, John Pardoe, was easily riled and that his ill-temper could end any chance he had. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But there was another mood in him, more vital and more enduring, if not so engaging, a mood in which he saw himself as one betrayed and sacrificed and abandoned, and then he attributed his ruin wholly to his friend and did not hesitate to speak of him as the “Judas” whose shallow selfishness and imperious ill-temper and unfulfilled promises of monetary help had driven a great man to disaster. ❋ Unknown (2007)
To my astonishment Oscar replied in evident ill-temper to say that he could not write the first act, or the scenario, but at the same time he hoped I would now send him some money for having helped to make my d閎ut on the stage. ❋ Unknown (2007)
- The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. ...... ❋ Unknown (2005)
'That's what I'm doing,' Anatole muttered with ill-temper. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)
This work, published only three years before Herder's death and after his renown had been eclipsed by such new stars as Schelling and Fichte, has never received much attention, but beneath its bursts of ill-temper it contains interesting and important criticisms of Kant. ❋ Guyer, Paul (2007)
Nature had forgotten to put any spice of ill-temper into his composition. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Suspicion, sullen ill-temper were on her forehead, vicious propensities in her eye, envy and panther-like deceit about her mouth. ❋ Unknown (2006)
She had never loved him, and told him this secret at last, and drove him out of doors with her selfish scorn and ill-temper. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But I shall pardon this explosion of ill-temper on the part of my constant reader, reflecting upon the misfortune of his birth and country. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But, possessing every thing, he has the vice of age, mingled with the ambition of youth, and enjoys nothing — but his own haughtiness and ill-temper, I was going to say. — ❋ Unknown (2006)
Duplicity he could not understand; ill-temper shocked him: wilfulness he seemed to fancy belonged only to the profane and wicked; not to good girls, with good mothers, in honest homes. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He’s [nothing] but an [ill-tempered] [scrote]. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)
