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"Peppery" Quotes from Famous Books

... exclaimed Warren. "Doctor John wouldn't do such a thing. He is just a hot-tempered, peppery ...

— The Lost Despatch • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... was Colonel Desha, of Kentucky, whose horse, Rogue, had won the Carter Handicap through Garrison's poor riding of the favorite, Sis. His daughter was expostulating with him, trying to insert the true version of the affair between her father's peppery exclamations of "Occupying my seat!" "I saw him raise his hat to you!" "How dare he?" "Complain to the management against these outrageous flirts!" "Abominable ...

— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson

... condescending air he was wont to assume in general society made it a little difficult for a stranger to believe that he could actually be the most popular person in the county; especially as it was not hard to discover that his temper could easily become peppery upon provocation. If, however, the stranger chanced to provide the worthy baronet with even the smallest opening of exhibiting his extraordinary kindness of heart—were it only by getting wet in a shower or mislaying a walking stick, he would quickly comprehend. ...

— Simon • J. Storer Clouston

Words linked to "Peppery" : pepper, tasty