1 Various as were the tempers in her father's house, he pleased them all.
2 His sanguine temper, and fearlessness of mind, operated very differently on her.
3 He seems to have a calm decided temper, not at all open to dangerous impressions.
4 Though better endowed than the elder sister, Mary had not Anne's understanding nor temper.
5 He thought her a most extraordinary young woman; in her temper, manners, mind, a model of female excellence.
6 How her temper and understanding might bear the investigation of his present keener time of life was another concern and rather a fearful one.
7 He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady Russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.
8 She thought it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
9 She joined Charles and Mary, and was tired enough to be very glad of Charles's other arm; but Charles, though in very good humour with her, was out of temper with his wife.
10 She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure.
11 From his wife's account of him she could discern Mr Smith to have been a man of warm feelings, easy temper, careless habits, and not strong understanding, much more amiable than his friend, and very unlike him, led by him, and probably despised by him.
12 Mary was in excellent spirits, enjoying the gaiety and the change, and so well satisfied with the journey in her mother-in-law's carriage with four horses, and with her own complete independence of Camden Place, that she was exactly in a temper to admire everything as she ought, and enter most readily into all the superiorities of the house, as they were detailed to her.