Those who are sweet-tempered show it in their faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference

As bright and sweet-tempered a fellow as ever lived!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Big Front Door] Reference

She is extremely sweet-tempered; and, when she observes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892] Reference

He's sweet-tempered and nothing gets him down for long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meredith Lopez: The Juban Princeling Turns One Year Old] Reference

So she grew up sweet-tempered, amiable, generous and happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference

Sir Kay, who was not always sweet-tempered, said to Sir Ivaine.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur and His Knights] Reference

Docile, sweet-tempered Ruth Curtis was aflame with mother wrath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Valley] Reference

Tobas found her sweet-tempered but stubborn, intelligent but naïve.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Single Spell]

She softens this awful threat by a merry sweet-tempered little laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

But to see the mild and sweet-tempered 'Rill display such venom was amusing.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

Georgina Hogarth, however, was sweet-tempered and of a motherly disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

She was pretty and sweet-tempered, but timid and without energy of character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference

She was a good-natured, sweet-tempered little puss, most times, and possessed of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Portion] Reference

She was also sweet-tempered, terribly naive, and openly hospitable to strangers.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Roses]

It's a funky little surprise, ingenuous and sweet-tempered and utterly original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Barol: Dance On, Matt] Reference

I grew quite fond of mine, which was a sweet-tempered dark bay with a white star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

There were seven Hen Turkeys, timid, sweet-tempered people, who were fond of walking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Farmyard People] Reference

A sweet-tempered, pleasant-spoken party like you are oughtn't to go about by yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890] Reference

Having made the mother of his child a pretty and sweet-tempered mulattress whom he met on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

She was one of the best scholars; bright, faithful, sweet-tempered, and a general favorite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference

"What can anybody have against so sweet-tempered and liberal a gentleman?" inquired Margery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

None of the quartette had ever before seen sweet-tempered Dorothy Martin so manifestly angry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference

Fleet was not blessed with the most beautiful and sweet-tempered wife and daughters in Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

She was quick and quiet in filling an order, and modest and self-possessed and sweet-tempered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

Agnes Durer was as sweet-tempered as the average woman, fond of her husband and a good housekeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference

Bertie was always sweet-tempered: in very truth, there was not a touch of bitterness in his nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

She was a very sweet-tempered, good girl, however, and everybody (except her cruel sisters) loved her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations] Reference

This hymn to youth and times past is sweet-tempered but never sentimental, accessible without compromise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Lion In The Desert] Reference

Though sweet-tempered and boyishly idealistic, Shepard, a University of Wyoming freshman, was hardly naive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Final Days And Nights Of A Gay Martyr] Reference

Ottawas, famed as they are throughout the land for kind, and good, and sweet-tempered, and beautiful maidens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

Their wives were good and affectionate, their sons strong and brave, and their daughters sweet-tempered and beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

There were the curates, -- our rector is not sweet-tempered, so we have a fresh one every year, -- and they never fail me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

Yet Miss Strong is gentle, sweet-tempered, thoroughly unselfish and high-minded, quiet and unobtrusive, neat and well-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

He is a little thoughtless and unpractical sometimes, but he is sweet-tempered, honest, true, clean-living, and God-fearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

Vince is a sweet-tempered city guy who fires golf balls off the roof of his mansion and travels everywhere with his homeboys.    From Wordnik.com.  [POWER TO THE POSSE] Reference

If she is quiet and unobtrusive and sweet-tempered she need not suffer from mortification even if she does not find much to enjoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference