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  • McCain needs someone even tempred who can take over the presidency.

    The Early Word: Web of Attacks - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • And modest thoughts breathd from wel-tempred sprites,

    Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

  • So euery sweet with soure is tempred still, that maketh it be coueted the more: for easie things that may be got at will, most sorts of men doe set but little store.

    Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

  • WAs it the worke of nature or of Art? which tempred so the feature of her face: that pride and meeknesse mixt by equall part, doe both appeare t'adorne her beauties grace.

    Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

  • So well a tempred mercie and a grace, to all the Aliens in this fruitefull land, that this highe | creasted insolence should spring, from them that breathe from his maiestick bountie, that fatned with the trafficque of our countrey: alreadie leape into his subiects face.

    Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590

  • (which his children and domestiques had evidence enough of) [yet] [2] it was so happily tempred, that his courtesy and affability towards all men was so transcended, so much without affectation, that it marvellously reconciled [him] to all men of all degrees, and he was looked upon as an excellent courtyer, without receadinge from the native simplicity of his owne manner.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • 1698: Vntill his Inke were tempred with Loues sighes:

    Love's Labour Lost (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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