These preferences are temperately stated. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He used the privileges of his office temperately. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a temperate response to an insulting challenge. From Dictionary.com.
When Maximin temperately urged the contrary practice of nations, he was still more confounded to find that the resolutions of the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Socrates says that a man should have so much property as will enable him to live temperately, which is only a way of saying. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
As a young man, Mr. Bacon drank "temperately," and he drank "temperately" in the prime of life; and now, at sixty, he continued to drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference
A gentleman eats temperately and drinks temperately. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
"Why should you hide your face?" he said temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Raven In The Foregate]
"Well, I don't think I am," Beth answered temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Further, a man may live temperately and yet miserably. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
But the city is healthy to those who live temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference
We partook temperately, tainting nothing with bold excess. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
"Now look here, Beth; don't be rabid," said Dan temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
And does not he who does his duty act temperately or wisely?. From Wordnik.com. [Charmides, or Temperance] Reference
Pigeons brains with Nutmeg grated in them; and drink temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
For this reason she caused them to break their fast temperately. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Sipping a small glass tumbler of pink wine, he speaks temperately. From Wordnik.com. [Homophobia] Reference
"Well, they are of all kinds, of course," said Powell temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
"Note that I have not attacked you, baby-face," Goody said temperately. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
"Well, it may sound so to you at present," Angelica answered temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
"We'd like you to share some of this Alafraan," adds Zandrey more temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Magi'i Of Cyador]
"It was treason," said Olivier, but more temperately than Cadfael had expected. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
The artistic worker gives a great deal, and does not enjoy or suffer temperately. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
The general point of view may be found, more temperately stated, in F.H. Bradley's. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Cranmer, to whom they were chiefly entrusted, advanced them steadily and temperately. From Wordnik.com. [A Child's History of England] Reference
I explained why I had given her the money, explained it temperately and with emphasis. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger] Reference
It was the first time he had spoken thus freely, temperately, without regret or penitence. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
"Top angels " excuse me, Cherubim and Seraphim " express their commands more temperately.". From Wordnik.com. [Fall of Angels]
"Mebbe I have," agreed Wade, temperately, and suddenly one saw the resemblance to his father. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
He took spirits temperately, and he supposed it was necessary to guard him against these evils. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Wherever one is boarding he can eat temperately; he can avoid highly spiced foods, tea and coffee. From Wordnik.com. [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference
Finally, it is necessary to avoid all excesses, to live temperately, to observe strict cleanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
"Well," said Beth temperately, "I don't think I could 'abide' a man who didn't make things comfortable.". From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
To avoid the sick headache eat slowly and temperately; and drink water frequently both at and between meals. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
He puts the matter so temperately and plainly that the most obtuse could not fail to see the reasonableness of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Or mayhap, "he added, more temperately," you're agin taking her because of my being sich a d-- d notorious rascal?. From Wordnik.com. [Nick of the Woods] Reference
Suppose a house with a great central hall, into which a current of fresh, temperately warmed air is continually pouring. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Lecky has stated the case against the Union ably and temperately; other writers, equally honourable, have taken the opposite side. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
She had lived temperately, and had not yet passed the age when happiness can restore a woman's beauty and brightness in a single day. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
With mind enfeebled and character lost, can he summon resolution to be singular, and live more temperately than his acknowledged superiors?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
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