She is an excellent, warm-hearted woman, with a
quick temper and very little judgment; strongly attached to Norah, and heartily interested in Norah's welfare.
"She was a good woman, Rebecca; she had a
quick temper and a sharp tongue, but she wanted to do right, and she did it as near as she could.
A flash of the
quick temper in him leaped up in his eyes.
"De Ville had a
quick temper, as quick as his hand, and his hand was as quick as the paw of a tiger.
His father was quite otherwise; of a sunny, jovial disposition, but with a
quick temper like a sudden flame kindled in a wisp of straw, which consumes it in a flash and is no more.
You know I have a
quick temper, but I don't want to quarrel or be rude to a woman, especially my wife; yet I'm driven to it, and feel like ten thousand devils after I've made a fool of myself.
And then, her temper's pretty quick, I guess; but there's one comfort, a child that has a
quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
Though of more than average height, he was handsome and agile, and he would have been an altogether exemplary cadet had it not been for his
quick temper. He was remarkably truthful, and was neither dissipated nor addicted to drink.
Something in her tone, or perhaps something in the audacious defiance of her eyes as they rested on him, roused the
quick temper that was in Francis Warwick.
I don't mean to treat Dodo ill; but, you know, I've got such a
quick temper. I'm not really bad to him, though.
Berg, as usual, kept silent when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the stories of the Grand Duke's
quick temper he related with gusto how in Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of a movement.
A
quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.