retempered

The soul gives up to it with confidence, hoping that its means of fiction will he retempered.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

My self-discipline was constantly being tested, constantly being tempered and retempered.

The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001

Tawabinisáy then burned out the wood from the axe, retempered the steel, set the new helve, and wedged it neatly with ironwood wedges.

The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909

In the corner of their rooms, after a time, stood a fair variety of tools, some already serviceable, others waiting to be polished, ground and hefted, and in some cases retempered.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

A plunge into one of its cool basins retempered the whole man.

Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885

A sewing-needle, first softened and flattened into a blade, then retempered and sharpened, gives me a most delicate scalpel.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The soul gives up to it with confidence, hoping that its means of fiction will he retempered.

The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790

Spain will appear before you, if not in all the splendor that the requirements of her wise, economical programme now forbid, at least in the manly garb of a nation meaning to show you and to show the world that her gloriously checkered career, instead of impairing our vitality, has retempered the ever-elastic steel of our national fiber and concentrated and directed all its latent energies toward the modern conquests of progress, labor, and civilization to which the city of St. Louis is now erecting a temple worthy of the city itself and of the auspicious event we are now commemorating.

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

It is in battle that talent is retempered, as formerly in the Styx were tempered -- "

His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876