It is a trying ordeal for the best of tempers.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Simply because it is their natures, and not their tempers, are in exercise.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
There should have been nothing to have disturbed our tempers, but the coming of the long blackness makes all Polar life ill at ease.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook