quick temper

"Look here, Walker," he began at once, his quick temper rising anew as he thought of the story Sanny Robertson had told him.

Her conduct was blameably thoughtless; and her quick temper could not submit to a rebuke so openly administered.

Capoul, much admired and especially in America, was intensely nervous and emotional with a quick temper.

Mademoiselle de Varandeuil had the quick temper that accompanies kindness of heart.

Her quick temper instantly resented the discourtesy of which she had been made the object.