The expression of her face is amiable and good-tempered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference

But there was a frown on Dick's usually good-tempered face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference

The brass teakettle looked to be good-tempered but unreliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference

Ottawas -- were upon the whole a very good-tempered, friendly people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

"Now be a good-tempered EDDY," she says, trundling her hoop beside him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870] Reference

It was Standon's turn to be offended, and his good-tempered face hardened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrien Leroy] Reference

One woman after another has chosen to be sincere, good-tempered, kind, and noble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

But Denys's good-tempered laugh rippled out and interrupted the flow of eloquence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference

She was tall, fair, and nice-looking, good-tempered, and perhaps a little careless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

In private life he was just as cheery, amusing, and good-tempered as on board ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

He had been an obstinate child, always good-tempered but always bent on his own way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

He leant against the bank looking up at her, smiling in his easy, good-tempered way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

He proved a most willing, honest, good-tempered servant, and a most useful linguist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

Patricia thought it a joke, but Arabella, never very good-tempered, was actually angry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times] Reference

"It keeps them good-tempered, and it rests the nurses," the smiling matron used to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference

"That's precisely Peters 'opinion," replied Craven promptly with a good-tempered laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

Her 'usban' met me in the passage; and he said to me -- good-tempered and civil enough, I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891] Reference

She appears to have been an indolent, good-tempered woman, and exceedingly superstitious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

The inspector was a good-tempered, fat old fellow, with red cheeks and an asthmatic cough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

"She hasn't given us no account of herself now," he continued in his hearty, good-tempered voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrien Leroy] Reference

That horse, you see, was not good-tempered, and so even the kind cabman could not make her happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of London] Reference

"It's all here," whispered Tuttu, one great smile stretching across his good-tempered little face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference

Simple, honest, and good-tempered enough; you see how courteously they salute us as we ride by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

And the boy was charmed to find that any one who was good-tempered could have relations with letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

She is just and good-tempered, and is ready to give her time and money when she sees she can be of use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

He can cover a hostile argument with ridicule, and drive it out of the field with good-tempered laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference

A shadow fell over Denys's happiness, but she drove it away with her usual good-tempered large-mindedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference

The Javanese are described generally as an excellent race of people, patient, good-tempered, and very handy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

They appear to be good-tempered, but it would not be wise to risk one's self on foot in their immediate neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

I'd pay ye for ut, but ye'd not be takin 'a poor girl's last shillin', I know, from the good-tempered purty face of ye. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

In person they are stout and well-made, of middling height, round good-tempered countenances, and fairer than the Malays.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

Well, this morning at Glencarn we had a scene; and, as an easy, good-tempered old man, I hate scenes, and keep away from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

The matron, for all her good-tempered face, was well developed muscularly, and did not seem the kind of woman to be trifled with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grell Mystery] Reference

But being pacified by a few good-tempered, though somewhat humorous, compliments, she thus favored them with her little adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference

He is a weak, good-tempered young man, or, as the King of Prussia called an acquaintance of mine, the Comte de Bohn, une belle bete.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference

They are a good-tempered, very hospitable, and unwarlike people, the victims of their rajahs; the oppressed, but not the oppressors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

You see, he was a common horse, this -- not a gentleman, but a good-tempered, nice fellow, that wouldn't give his driver much trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of London] Reference

You may decide that a lady is good-tempered, when any amount of trampling on the skirt of her new silk dress brings no cloud to her brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

Whether she was good-tempered or cross, I cannot tell, for she had no husband, and so there was nothing to vex her, or to try her patience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference