attemper the air.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

In foreign relations we have to attemper our power to the less happy condition of other Republics in America and to place ourselves in the calmness and conscious dignity of right by the side of the greatest and wealthiest of the Empires of Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Gerard tells us: "The flowers are of a very sweet smell, as is the rest of the herb, which, being made up into garlands or bundles, and hanged up in houses, in the heat of summer, doth very well attemper the air, cool and make fresh the place, to the delight and comfort of such as are therein.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Lifted sashes and lofty ceilings were insufficient to attemper it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference

Then I asked if there were any remedy that might attemper the wrath of our Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 6] Reference

In foreign relations we have to attemper our power to the less happy condition of other.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address] Reference

Of his answer we require you to advertise us with all diligence, for according thereunto we intend to attemper our proceedings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference

At ye upper End are two Cocks to let in one hott, ye other Cold water to attemper it as persons please – the Windows are all private Glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary] Reference

Then we fast in March for to attemper and depress the blood of concupiscence disordinate, for sanguine of his nature is full of fleshly concupiscence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference

To this then that this fasting may attemper in us four times in the year, at each time we fast three days, to the end that the number of four may be reported to the body, and the number of three to the soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference

Providence itself to a kind of nonplus, to attemper any dispensation of it to an universal acceptance; any more than that glorious fountain of light, the sun, can shine upon all the corners of the earth at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference

And when his brethren constrained him to take a medicine for his eyes, and the surgeon held a burning iron in his hand, the blessed Francis said: My brother fire, be thou to me in this hour debonair and curable: I pray to our Lord that made thee, that thou attemper my heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference

Because he said to himself, If the laborers have not straw wherewith to attemper the clay, but only stubble and chaff gathered from the fields, will not the bricks be ill-made and lack strength and symmetry of form, so that the wall made thereof will not be true and strong, or fitly joined together?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bricks without Straw A Novel] Reference

In the next place, he will regulate his bodily habit and training, and so far will he be from yielding to brutal and irrational pleasures, that he will regard even health as quite a secondary matter; his first object will be not that he may be fair or strong or well, unless he is likely thereby to gain temperance, but he will always desire so to attemper the body as to preserve the harmony of the soul?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic] Reference

These unite with and attemper one another, so that we doubt when we should, we aim at certainty when we should, and we submit when we should.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal] Reference

After appealing to the earl himself for the advantage which he had lately received by following his own well-meant advice, in renewing with the queen "a treaty of obsequious kindness," which "did much attemper a cold malignant humor then growing upon her majesty towards him," he repeats his counsel that he should "win the queen;" adding, "if this be not the beginning of any other course, I see no end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth] Reference

Encourage me, attemper you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor] Reference

A man of well-attemper’d frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington] Reference

Who has discretion to attemper it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference

Thro 'changing Months a well-attemper'd Mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace] Reference

Then to the spring attemper thou thy thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia] Reference

To the waters fall their tunes attemper right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepheardes Calendar] Reference

"But THOU! whose mind the well-attemper'd ray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

To the waters 'fall their tunes attemper right. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference

Draws forth the dead, with grief-attemper’d notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persians] Reference