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In this emergency he set aside his affectation of disinterest and made quick, clear decisions, gave orders with an easy authority that controlled the quicktempered and calmed the hysterical.
Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967
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"Julie was excitable like and quicktempered, but she niver did wrong, an 'don't let yourselves be thinkin' ut."
I Spy Natalie Sumner Lincoln 1908
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Kate was not vindictive, although quicktempered, and at last, amid some hysterical sobbing, peace was restored.
A Mummer's Wife 1892
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Her eldest daughter, Sally, married a man named Thompson, who was as quicktempered as his mother-in-law.
Stories Of Georgia Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Professor, “and you know, he’s not at all a quicktempered man,” had ‘waved his sword in the air’ and told her that she “didn’t know what money meant.”
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