sweet-tempered
Example Sentences
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But no careful observer was likely to accuse Lady Constance Ashton of being patient and sweet tempered.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Sweet temper is certainly essential to a happy home; but if my friend were not too sweet tempered to hide these offerings from constant sight, her sitting-room would not be so exasperating a place.
From Girls and Women by Paine, Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester}
The Captain," wrote Ker on the 30th of March, 1810, "is a sweet tempered good young man but he wants steadiness....
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon
As a matter of fact, upon most occasions, Dan Webster was rather unusually sweet tempered.
From The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Vandercook, Margaret O'Bannon Womack
She is then meek, sweet tempered, and looks into one's eyes with the pleading expression of a child who is afraid to be punished.
From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
