1 An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 2 I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished finish; a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish.
3 His temperament might be said to be just at the point of maturity.
4 Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.
5 Their gaze began with a defiant note but was confused by what seemed a deliberate swoon of the pupil into the iris, revealing for an instant a temperament of great sensibility.
6 But the artistic temperament that they create, or at any rate reveal, is still more to me.
7 Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.
8 Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious.
9 To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing--my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.
10 Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 11 He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 12 Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in his mood.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE 13 Or perchance his sensitive temperament was invigorated by the loud and piercing music that swelled heaven-ward, and uplifted him on its ascending wave.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 14 He was not to blame for having been born with his unbridled temperament and his somehow limited intelligence.
15 This was a very strong expression of approbation, an uncommonly hearty welcome, from a person of Mr. Sikes' temperament.