"Short-tempered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to help the prisoners of her own people, and our wounded too. For any day her husband might want help from us or might be brought in wounded to our hospital, where she could nurse and tend to him herself. Our men liked to be attended by her, for she was gentler far than I and never short-tempered with them. ...
— Sketches of the East Africa Campaign • Robert Valentine Dolbey
... I sadly joined Jane to be well and deservedly scolded for firing a foolish shot. The lady was very much disgusted at having been defrauded of the sight of a bear "quite wild," as she expressed it—a certain short-tempered animal which had eaten up her best umbrella in the Zoo at Dusseldorf not having fulfilled the necessary condition ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne |
