| 单词 | untempered |
| 例句 | Because of the universal respect the regent enjoyed — from both black and white — and the seemingly untempered power that he wielded, I saw chieftaincy as being the very center around which life revolved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When Homer came to the back of the wagon with a lantern and revealed Ridgeway’s face, the slave catcher was staring at her with untempered fury. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Especially during the summer, the streets so dog mad with heat, untempered, literally steaming with possibilities, none of them good. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were fascinated by the untempered race of man. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “For woman is yin,” she cried sadly, “the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Since “independence” the Venda people have been under the clutches of the Pretoria- anointed dictator, Patrick Mphephu, who, despite the loss of two elections, continues clinging to power through untempered repression and brutality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Idealism untempered by an understanding of the complex interplay of forces inside a country ends up in this sort of mess. What Samantha Power Learned on the Job 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z It is still somewhat stark, made tough by its untempered repetitiousness, but it has a quality of conception, proportion and detail that is streets ahead of almost any other new luxury apartment block. One Hyde Park ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:43Z According to pop culture, locker rooms are places where untempered maleness, like tile mildew, thrives. Trump’s Locker Room Is His Safe Space 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z His point, rather, is that empathy is untempered by reason, emanating from the murky bayou of the gut. Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Tea is green or black, with sugar traditionally added to the first cup and the last cup untempered, bitter and strong. Afghan Delights, Delicate and Rugged, at Sami’s Kabab House in Queens 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Modality and untempered tuning, which result in the striking dissonances and harmonies of Georgian traditional singing, are ill suited for Western five-line notation. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z But the movie deserves credit for its untempered nastiness. Review: In ‘Bayou Caviar,’ the Main Course Is a Cold-Blooded Noir 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z His is a pseudoscientific curiosity untempered by any moral concerns; that makes him useful to Goebbels, whose inner circle he joins. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Soon afterwards, his voice started telling me that men untempered by fatherhood end up brittle and estranged from the life force. I never thought I would marry. But my friend persuaded me – after he died 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Both sides would incur massive losses if their rivalry intensifies, untempered by any sense of shared interests, and leads to war. Column: Can the U.S. strike a balance between isolationism and policing the world? 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Both sides would incur massive losses in blood and treasure if their rivalry intensifies untempered by any sense of shared interests, and leads to war. Op-Ed: How U.S.-China 'competition' could lead both countries to disaster 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Experience — from the battlefield to the bureaucracy — had instilled a healthy suspicion of power untempered by character. Opinion | The enduring impact of Colin Powell 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z “But the untempered ranting of legislators during the impeachment hearings diminishes our global standing and creates opportunities for influence operations by hostile foreign security services.” ‘Smiling at the circus’: Putin uses impeachment probe to exacerbate rifts in U.S. 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z They’re embodied, for example, in the Endangered Species Act, passed in 1973, in which Congress rued the possibility of extinctions as a “consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation.” The U.N. Report on Extinction vs. Mike Pompeo at the Arctic Council 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z As a consequence, meritocrats are often educated to be bad leaders, and bad people, in a very specific way — a way of arrogant intelligence unmoored from historical experience, ambition untempered by self-sacrifice. Opinion | The Case Against Meritocracy 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Still, optimism persisted in spite of it all, at least long enough for many American leaders to greet the Arab Spring of 2011 with untempered hope. Opinion | America still shouldn’t mind its own beeswax 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z If by “rewarding” you mean “educational” — not a different definition that would involve, for example, money or untempered joy. What I learned from a year of obsessive fandom 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z But Trump’s hypersensitivity and unedited, untempered Pavlovian responses are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability. Donald Trump and the fitness threshold 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z In life, he was startlingly lacking in artifice or pretension, his excitement about the natural world as simple and untempered as a young child’s. Oliver Sacks Tribute Captures His Quirks and Insights 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Ragged, raw, funny, blinkered, tetchy, champing, dunderheaded: Fury is both a genuine sporting star and a voice from the fringes, unvarnished, untempered, unapologetic. Tyson Fury: the boxer who picked a fight with the world 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Maybe it was the sheer length and exhaustion, or the untempered enthusiasm of its founders. Video: Deep in the wilds of the Desert Hearts festival 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z From her description of Horst, Andreas had the impression that he was one of those people whose self-love is untempered by shame and thus fully contagious. “The Republic of Bad Taste” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Would a dearth of competition in the primaries leave Clinton untested and untempered for battle against a Republican opponent who presumably will be in midseason form? Hillary stands alone 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z But his commitment to the relief project he had embarked on was untempered, and it was clear to me that he would soon go back. Peter Kassig in Beiruit 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Yet women’s swimming does not permit itself naïve and untempered adulation. Inside the Rings: Chinese Swimmer's Record Raises Doping Concerns 2012-07-31T01:57:52Z Robert’s untempered fanaticism had required no stimulus, and now it raged beyond all bounds. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z There has scarcely been a shower since early April, and for nearly six months the untempered rays of the Persian sun have been blazing upon the soil. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z They are bowing themselves beneath hods of untempered mortar. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z And this untempered zeal is very much like what one generally encounters when he runs up against the prejudices of naturalists anywhere. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z She loved the wind as she loved the sunlight; she loved the warmth and the crudely brilliant colour, the untempered heat of this land of eternal sunshine, of vast spaces, and fierce and splendid life. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z Every one came to Miss Agatha when an unpleasant situation had to be faced: she faced it so resolutely, with the inflexibility of justice untempered with mercy. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z Many keep their lids close shut, to protect both eyes and brain from the nerve-shattering solar rays, which are far too powerful to be allowed to fall, untempered, upon an infant's highly-sensitive body. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z He will not cry "peace, peace," when there is no peace; nor "daub with untempered mortar." Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z They—the priests—know not how to build it They—the priests—daub with untempered mortar, and the walls they erect tumble down if so much as a fox attempt to go up thereon. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Superiority was sharply expressed in his countenance, strong self-consciousness, untempered by sympathy. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z No peace leading to slavish stupidity; no peace prompting to preposterous prudence, in palliating sin, or daubing defections with untempered morter; no peace inconsistent with truth; they must go together, Zech. i. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z He describes them as building a wall and then putting some untempered stuff, a whitewash, upon the wall. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z Thus much was untempered gold, as discovered in the little old book. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z His hands and face were dark with exposure to the sun, not of parks and club-grounds and seaside piazzas, but the dry untempered light of the desert and the plains. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z The hereditary searing-iron must have found place in his daughter’s composition, though untempered by the experience of years and maturity. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z The great difference between them was in expression; the difference between untempered and tempered metal. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z The sanctuary of the Lord is built up with untempered mortar, and jewels of gold are degraded to a swine’s snout. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z There was no steam power to assist, no power drills, there were only rude, untempered tools. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z Poetry that has life for its subject, and untempered reality, is rather expected to manifest that irregular flow and exuberance of material over structure with which Walt Whitman challenged the world. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z At these meetings every sinner has judgment pronounced on him untempered with mercy. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. III (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:01:02.690Z It seemed so expressive of the arbitrary decrees of absolute force, oblivious of justice, untempered by mercy! The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Heaven, after all, hath been a little merciful to the miserable man; not entirely untempered to human nature are the most direful blasts of Fate. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z She fell into one of the idle, romantic dreams evoked by a highly-strung imagination, untempered by any light of experience. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Good and evil, then, may not mix well, but certain it is that contradiction results from the common attempt of men to regard either as untainted or untempered by the other. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Mournful as was this last sight of her, and touched with remorse, he could yet bear it away in his heart for long remembrance not untempered by consolation. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame It was simply and solely the outcome of religious zeal untempered by discretion. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical The majority, however, dispute this, and say that what looked like madness was simply zeal—zeal, perhaps untempered with discretion. Brother Francis Less than the least He has little to do, plenty to eat and drink, and his festivity was untempered by moral considerations. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Simply, the whole life will never brook an untempered neglect from any of its always self-assertive parts. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker There is no mean between her being "a wall daubed with untempered mortar," or the city of the living God. The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries This prehistoric suggestion which San Francisco gives, is further carried out by the untempered breath of its climate. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 His dismay, therefore, was the more untempered when the mildly austere maid told him that Mrs. Waterlow was away. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece The sun, westering, fell with untempered light on their heads, but they faced it with the calm unconcern of eagles. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Minola herself was filled with affectionate kindness for the overgrown child, not untempered with a dash of pity and wonder. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. But in this particular winter the untempered cold of December and January, which slew many of the wood folk and drove the others wild with hunger, broke suddenly in an unprecedented thaw. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Then there came to Sheila a swift, inward vision of the contradictions of her own temperament, a vision untempered by the merciful knowledge that, in the final analysis, all human nature is very much alike. The Torch Bearer His courage was untempered by any discretion or calculation, and unless bound by positive instructions, he would go at any thing. History of Morgan's Cavalry Jason made sure that the opening was slightly undersized, then took the untempered wrench to the work site and filed the jaws to an exact fit. The Ethical Engineer And, just as his pleasures had been without temperance, so his justice had been untempered by mercy. The Eyes Have It This beating the air, is some like daubing with untempered mortar; you cannot make any of it stay put. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 But there is a vast difference between selfishness untempered with other motives and selfishness eager for the esteem of one's fellows. Higher Education and Business Standards The usual scenes of pay-day were reënacted, and the occasion passed away amid the untempered follies of some and the conserving wisdom of others. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry But this faith is hardly more than the confluence of hopes and strivings, habits, traditions, and aspirations untempered by accurate knowledge of the facts. England and Germany No doubt of it, it was that awful description in M. S.'s untempered language that had made me dread my surroundings, not the loneliness and silence of the corridors about me. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The case of these poor miserable wretches, midnight prowlers, with eyes and hearts and bending steps determined upon mischief and evil-doing, presents to us the spectacle of justice untempered with mercy. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Kerk's attitude was completely emotional, untempered by the slightest touch of logic. Deathworld We rarely find wit untempered by humor, or humor without a spice of wit; and sometimes we find them both united in the highest degree in the same mind, as in Shakespeare and Molière. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete As a child he had vague and wistful cravings, untempered, unbeautified by such imaginative visions as usually accompany the eccentric feelings of such children as are subject to them. The Countess of Albany And the flight of birds, the gulls and rooks and little brown wavering things which flit out and along the edge of the chalk-pits, is once more refreshment to me, utterly untempered. Tatterdemalion Society is but the reflection of man himself, untempered by woman's thought, the hard iron rule we feel alike in the church, the state, and the home. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II They go about in the untempered sunlight and forsake the shade that delivers from the heat, Is 4, 6. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood The direct, straightforward way often goes on mercilessly up the steep hill, having sharp flints in its pathway, cold winds, dry dust, untempered glare. The Rhodesian Preston hereupon broke out into an untempered abuse of Northern things in general, and Northern cadets in particular, mingled with a repetition of his demands upon me. Daisy The girl remained standing afar off, watching the scene, whose brilliance was heightened by an untempered April sun. Captain Desmond, V.C. The whole method of Plato's "Politeia," breathes the spirit of legalism in all its severity, untempered by the spirit of Love. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The raw, untempered glare of the sun was giving place to a limitless pour of silvery moonlight. Brand Blotters The whole face had a certain air of tough endurance, of determination, of resolute go-forwardness untempered by the recoil of sensitiveness. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York But he looked too a personified day of judgment untempered by mercy. Crooked Trails and Straight And thus have we pulled down the untempered mortar wherewith Hall would hide the idolising of the ceremonies. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Playing on the fears and hopes and untempered weakness of the public, they reap where they do not sow and feed the speculative appetite of millions. The Rapids Its modification, however, should never be in consequence of untempered pressure from below. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 Bitter humiliations were unavoidable; she looked into the future with untempered dread. The Goose Man The untempered force of the former might not be endured. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces It could not bear the untempered atmosphere of everyday life. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity This system of credit, which need not be at all or might be quite other than it is, has given them supreme, untempered power, which they use to the injury of men. Gossamer 1915 France had lived under what was practically a despotism untempered by an expression of organized public opinion for several generations. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III The natural sun is inconceivably great, we cannot grasp its magnitude; it is inconceivably glorious, we cannot bear to gaze for one moment on its untempered light. A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies There is a certain kind of mutual respect, not untempered by substantial mutual obligation, which very nearly approaches to friendship when the parties concerned have common tastes and are not unsympathetic. Paul Patoff And the sun poured down its untempered rays on the condemned. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette They were a hard-bitten lot, burned to a brick red by the untempered sun of the Rockies. The Highgrader The inquiry was from first to last conducted in a spirit of partisanship, and the report, in the language of Dr. Rolph, was "the offspring of untempered zeal, insufficient evidence, hasty conclusions, and executive devotion." The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion Billy Jones watched the proceedings with interest, not untempered by envy. Light Freights If thine no more, if lightly left behind, To guard the dancing clusters thought unmeet, It is because with gilded trellis twined Thy liberal growth demands untempered heat. Ionica No; it was of too untempered steel to have been manufactured for any thrusting or cutting purposes. That Affair Next Door The young men of the world watched this scene with amusement not untempered with choler, while they proceeded elaborately to assist the pretty Basins, who were wrapping themselves in their thin shawls. Vesty of the Basins Her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. The Angels' Song A high intelligence runs riot, and an idealism untempered by sobriety and practice, with strong passions, and love of show. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development That it secured its beneficent results untempered by any mixture of evil, can only be maintained by men as mad as Doctor Pangloss. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre The judgment of men warped in that ceaseless wind, untempered by green of bough overhead or refreshing turf under foot. Trail's End He unluckily fills up the gaps of his logical edifice with the untempered mortar of obsolete metaphysics, long since become utterly uninteresting to all men. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Perfect comprehension—untempered by perfect love—would be a terrible thing; mercifully for us poor mortals it does not exist. The Farringdons A wire of untempered steel, of the size of the vent, with a sharp, well-centred point, and a small spirit-level, are required to use with this instrument. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. The untempered sun had beat down a palpitating heat upon dry sand wastes. Steve Yeager In noonday it smiles with silvery lustre, fold upon fold of the indented hills and islands melting from the brightness of the sea into the untempered brilliance of the sky. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series She had also, with the untempered candour of eighteen, suggested to Fay that she should cease to make a slave of Magdalen. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron Preston hereupon broke out into an untempered abuse of Northern things in general and Northern cadets in particular, mingled with a repetition of his demands upon me. Daisy Vent-gauges of untempered steel wire, with shoulders to prevent them from slipping into the vent. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. Harrison stood blinking in the doorway, having just come out from the untempered sunlight in the street. Steve Yeager She was once again the stormy, uneasy thing that had dominated her loose world, a vital and indomitable personality untempered by reason or any conscience. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories He bowed before the pure, unordered, untempered feminine, and his masculine mind reeled. The Debtor A Novel The bitter wind reigned over London for seven long days, meting untempered chastisement to its reluctant subjects, and dying unwept and gasping on a Monday night. Berry And Co. If the cement to hold together the stones of the temple be untempered mortar, must not the fabric fall, and bury the worshippers in its ruins? The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance Madge does not forget her father, unworthy though he was of such a daughter; and to Jack the memory of Diane is untempered by bitter feelings; for he knows that she repented at the last. In Friendship's Guise Even buildings run up in haste with untempered mortar in that humid weather, if they are ill-contrived tenements, do not threaten long to incumber the earth. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) The untempered spirit of madness, blindness, immorality, and impiety deserves no commendation. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) The broad fact that there was the will, and that alone to act upon, untempered by a codicil, shone out all too clearly. Verner's Pride Years in the untempered sun and wind of the southwest had given her a sturdiness of body unusual in a girl so slenderly fashioned. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today Then his untempered delight in the possession of his old friends took him again and, with the exception of one or two equally momentary cloud-shadows, lasted all evening. The Real Adventure It may seem strange, in one breath to denounce Henry and to defend his daughter Mary; but severe justice, untempered with sympathy, has been meted out to her. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The metal which went to the making of the Ring, and on which he poured his imaginative alloy, was crude and untempered, but it was gold. Robert Browning The glow of the leaping flames from the twisted mesquite lit their lean faces, tanned to bronzed health by the beat of an untempered sun and the sweep of parched winds. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West The broad-brimmed felt hat, the shiny leather chaps, the loosely knotted bandanna, were as much a matter of course as the hard-eyed, weather-beaten look that comes of life under an untempered sun. Mavericks Lincoln's gratification at his election was not untempered with disappointments. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him His organism, both as to physical and mental elements, was like a piece of solid iron, untempered by the refining processes of an inherent spirituality. Cosmic Consciousness Neither will they ever be set right, but continue to build a mouldering fabric, with untempered mortar, till a number of intelligent residents, by local enquiries can produce solid materials for a lasting monument. An History of Birmingham (1783) "I see you are not very frightened by my opposition," she rejoined in a flash of amusement not wholly untempered by exasperation. The Last Shot Then indeed she had lost her head, had sung and danced and made merry, till some trifling accident had provoked her mother's untempered wrath and a sound boxing of ears had quite sobered her enthusiasm. Greatheart He shared to the full their ardent love for their country and their untempered hatred of the English race. The Lord of Dynevor But such a mood as this, unbalanced and untempered by a loftier one, is hazardous to the eternal interests of the soul. Sermons to the Natural Man With unabated vehemence Burke again rose to denounce the French Constitution—"a building composed of untempered mortar—the work of Goths and Vandals, where everything was disjointed and inverted." Burke Before the healing light and heat the poisonous growth, the blight of drought and of untempered heat disappear. Quiet Talks about Jesus Whether this belief anywhere exists alone, and untempered by higher creeds, is another question. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Heavy drafts have introduced a large and untempered element into our composition. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand And yet, in all ages, we find that there have been many wolves in sheep's clothing, many that daubed with untempered mortar, that prophesied smoother things than God did allow. The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason Charles Burchester, Lord Saltash, said to be of royal descent, possessed in no small degree the charm not untempered with wickedness of his reputed ancestor. The Obstacle Race And, compared with the French, the Germans are untempered steel. What is Coming? So untempered a glare would have been destructive to all half-tones and subtleties of modelling; but Undine's beauty was as vivid, and almost as crude, as the brightness suffusing it. The Custom of the Country My nerves had suddenly become things of stolid, untempered iron. Prester John Police regard him as a Fagin, a corrupter of youth, and speak of him with untempered loathing. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier The snow had ceased; only the wind raved with untempered force. The Bronze Bell Lanyard contemplated with untempered wonder the fact of his equanimity: there seemed nothing at all strange in this extraordinary experience; he was by no means excited, remained merely if deeply interested. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Young persons have usually a cheerful and satirical turn, untempered by seriousness, thus often making themselves disagreeable. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims One incident of this collision between Milton, young and unknown, and the venerable prelate, whom he was assaulting with the rude wantonness of untempered youth, deserves to be mentioned here. Milton I have found, however, that fine cast drill steel, untempered, of the kind employed by watchmakers, is most suitable; these are generally sold in straight lengths of 30 centimeters. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 The illustration here, indeed, approaches the allegorical form, in the obtrusive, untempered predominance of the qualities represented, so overdone as to wear the air of a caricature, though the historical combination is still here. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded During the long months the sun pours its heat upon the rocks and sands, untempered by clouds above or forest shades beneath. Canyons of the Colorado There was little feminine vanity in the glance—rather a cool judging and appraising, untempered with any personal prejudice. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People Pleased as she was with them, her hostess soon interrupted her ecstasies by breaking out in accusation of Malcolm, not untempered, however, with a touch of dawning respect. The Marquis of Lossie In attacking the Bank he laid a profane touch upon a sacred ark and handled untempered mortar. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders The untempered sun of the Northland beat down on the cold snow crystals and reflected a million sparks of light. Man Size When the spirit passed the portals untempered, and drove women too highly-strung, too unhappy, or too easily bored, to the divorce courts, to drink, or to reckless adventure, they were summarily dropped. Sleeping Fires: a Novel My own mental temper has gone for the day, and I know what it means to be untempered. A Modern Utopia Ambition, and the base counterfeit of love, those two master passions in untempered minds, were the springs of this antipathy. The Scottish Chiefs It was agony, though still, as she had said, not the worst, untempered by faith or resignation. The Young Step-Mother Mr. Murphy eyed his youthful superior with mild curiosity, not untempered with amusement. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley The new-comer was left to struggle for himself in a community composed of human beings at their most heartlessly cruel age, untempered by any external influence. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 The rare, untempered sunshine of the Rockies poured into his window from a world outside, wonderful as the early morning of creation. A Texas Ranger In his other pieces there is much more untempered nonsense than humour. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Here, scarce a quarter-century ago, a sandspit had broiled beneath an untempered sun. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story She might travel in the summer, as Dion had suggested, but if she did that she would be forced to endure a solitude a deux with him untempered by any social distractions. In the Wilderness In the case of ordinary soft or untempered iron the magnetism disappears instantly when the magnet is removed. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science The fine untempered air was like wine, and out of a blue sky the sun beat pleasantly down through a crystal-clear atmosphere known only to the region of the Rockies. A Texas Ranger All the clear, untempered light of the world seemed to have made its home in Beni-Mora. The Garden of Allah Hardly a leaf was stirring; the untempered sunlight fell in a burning flood upon the field; the grasshoppers rose, snapped, buzzed, and fell; the locust uttered its dry, heat-intensifving cry. Main-Travelled Roads The painted shingles of the plain wooden one-storied building in which the Colonel sat were warped and blistering in the direct rays of the fierce, untempered sun. Colonel Starbottle's Client Sheltered by the high, northerly bluff, the house and its garden were exposed to the untempered heat of the cloudless sun refracted from the rocky wall behind it. Sally Dows "Why are you asking about my ancestors?" the girl demanded of the young German with untempered brightness. Pandora In the play of untempered golden light the face seemed pale. The Garden of Allah The air was like wine, pure and strong, and above the desert swam the rare, untempered light of Wyoming. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West STRANGER: Because courage, when untempered by the gentler nature during many generations, may at first bloom and strengthen, but at last bursts forth into downright madness. Statesman Thou art enshrined In a too primal innocence for this eye - Intent on such untempered radiancy - Not to be pained; my clay can scarce endure Ungrieved the effluence near of essences so pure. Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters Elsewhere you find South or North, nothing but untempered obscure jarring; which breaks forth ever and anon into open clangour of riot. The French Revolution Behind the evergreen hedge she heard the liquid bubbling of a hidden waterfall, and when they had left the untempered sunlight behind them this murmur grew louder. The Garden of Allah Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. Jane Eyre Hence compulsion is not the method of him who makes wisdom his study, but of him who wields power untempered by reflection. The Memorabilia Here are icefields as big as inland seas on which the tumbled boulders lie so thickly that strange little flowers can bloom among them under the untempered sunshine. The World Set Free |
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