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  • She is, instead, a youthful, easy-tempered, gay, 38-year-old woman who prefers sly jokes to spittle-flecked anger.

    Rachel Maddow: 'I'm definitely not an autocutie' 2011

  • The one striking difference between Gray Wolf and Ghost Cat was the presence of enormous dogs everywhere - huge, easy-tempered dogs who paid no attention whatsoever to the newcomers, even Hashi, who was about their size.

    Elephant in the City 2010

  • Henry snapped at everyone, including his patient and easy-tempered wife and then, quite suddenly, at the beginning of June he departed for Greenwich, leaving Queen Catherine in charge of the children at Hampton Court.

    Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • Not that your wife will ever obey you though; you are much too easy-tempered.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Indeed, she had all that fondness for him which a lodging-house keeper generally has for a handsome, dissipated, easy-tempered young man; and when she heard that he had been ‘quodded,’ immediately made up her mind that steps must be taken for his release.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • When an easy-tempered man does assert himself in his family, the rarity of the demonstration invariably has its effect; and the will of that easy-tempered man is Law.

    No Name 2003

  • Mr. Vanstone was too easy-tempered and sanguine — and too anxious, as well, not to yield his old antagonist an inch more ground than he could help — to look at the letter from any such unfavorable point of view.

    No Name 2003

  • Philip to intermeddle in the affairs of Greece, chiefly hoping, because of his affection and trust that he felt for Aratus, they should find him easy-tempered, and ready to be managed as they pleased.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • I am, by nature, one of the most easy-tempered creatures that ever lived — I make allowances for everybody, and I take offence at nothing.

    The Woman in White 2003

  • Further, some are crafty and mischievous, as the fox; some are spirited and affectionate and fawning, as the dog; others are easy-tempered and easily domesticated, as the elephant; others are cautious and watchful, as the goose; others are jealous and self-conceited, as the peacock.

    The History of Animals 2002

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