Слово "temper". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The General’s – his General’s – temper had grown worse and worse.

His temper had been savage by birth, but it became more savage under this unending persecution.

Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered.

“Oh, come off it!” said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad-tempered.

But, as Baloo said to Bagheera, one day when Mowgli had been cuffed and run off in a temper,

“I really beg your pardon!” said my companion, who had ruffled the little man's temper by bursting into an explosion of laughter.

He lost his temper and tripped over a hoop.

“Oh, no, sir. He lost his temper easily – as I say, it just depended what had happened to upset him.”

'Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose YOUR temper!'

This confusion in the front of the moving pack always caused confusion in the rear. The wolves behind collided with the young wolf and expressed their displeasure by administering sharp nips on his hind-legs and flanks. He was laying up trouble for himself, for lack of food and short tempers went together; but with the boundless faith of youth he persisted in repeating the manoeuvre every little while, though it never succeeded in gaining anything for him but discomfiture.

He felt his temper rising, and he flushed.

Soup does very well without—Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, 'and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.

And when Squealer went on to give further graphic details of Boxer's death-bed, the admirable care he had received and the expensive medicines for which Napoleon had paid without a thought as to the cost, their last doubts disappeared and the sorrow that they felt for their comrade's death was tempered by the thought that at least he had died happy.

At a certain moment of the world's history the Contrôleur was Mynheer Evert Gruyter and he ruled the people who inhabited the Alas Islands with firmness tempered by a keen sense of the ridiculous.

Mimi was strict; our kids were allowed one out-going call per day and max of ninety seconds on a call, with rising scale of punishment--tempered by her warmth in granting exceptions.

It was a complete set, made of specially tempered steel, the latest designs in drills, punches, braces and bits, jimmies, clamps, and augers, with two or three novelties, invented by Jimmy himself, in which he took pride.

The unharmonious white face had a thick and unfinished look, like iron before tempering or clay before firing.