Her friend's sorrow over Peter Junior's disagreement with his father and his sudden departure from the home was tempered by the glad hope that after all the years of anxiety, she was some time to have a daughter to love, and that her boy and his wife would live near them, and her home might again know the sound of happy children's voices.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Maybe he 'll be better tempered when we have tea.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
And she was a fool; a proud, ill-tempered, selfish fool..
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower