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"In the actual state of the moon," resumed Barbicane, "the long nights and days create differences of temperature insupportable to the constitution, but it was not so at that epoch of historical times. The atmosphere enveloped the disc with a fluid mantle. Vapour deposited itself in the form of clouds. This natural screen tempered the ardour of the solar lays, and retained the nocturnal radiation.
What, above all, the barbarian cannot appreciate is the suave mean of life, the ideal of individual human excellence, of a tempered social control, the liberty of the individual within the fewest possible restrictions to work out his own scheme of existence, his own civilization. For the barbarian mind recognizes only two sorts of beings the master and the slave.
He stopped, startled at the sight of Hazel dancing in the shadowy garden with her hair loose and her abandon tempered by weariness. He stood behind the hedge until Abel brought the tune to an early end with the laconic remark, 'Supper, and went indoors with his harp. Edward opened the gate and went in. 'Eh, mister! what a start you give me! said Hazel breathlessly. 'So this is your home? 'Ah!
He suffered with singular patience and constancy all the vexations excited by his operations, until towards the last, when, finding himself short of means and wishing to meet his difficulty, he became quick and bad- tempered, and his replies were often ill-measured.
There is tremendous power in the early inoculation by the home influence of self-confidence, when it is tempered by modesty and consideration for others. Remember whatever in your own bringing up seems to-day unfortunate, and avoid it in the training of your children. Remember whatever was good and helpful, and emulate it. To Miss Zoe Clayborn Artist Concerning the Attentions of Married Men
The cold of the night, and the now present danger, made Cole shiver all over, and he paused. But he began again, and, taking out a fine steel saw highly tempered, proceeded to saw the iron slowly and gently, ready at the first alarm to spring from his ladder and run away. With all his caution, steel grated against steel, and made too much noise in the stilly night. He desisted.
Huge, heavy they are, according to the local ideal, and always wanting the delicacy of Venetian architecture, where something in the native genius tempered to gentleness the cold severity of Palladio, and where Sansovino knew how to bridge the gulf between the Gothic and the Renascent art that would have been Greek but halted at being Roman.
Breeding as an art has produced many forms of chickens that are entirely worthless as food producers, but this same group of poultry breeders, tempered to be sure by the demands of commercialism, have produced other breeds that are certainly superior for the various commercial purposes to the unselected fowls of the old-fashioned farm-yard. The mongrel chicken is a production of chance.
It was a morning when the sky was a delicate violet-blue, when the sunlight came tempered through a tender land haze and a filmy mist from the still sea, when all the air was redolent with sweet smells of coming spring, and all the girls were gay in new attire. Dennis Quigg had been lounging outside the church door, his silk hat and green satin necktie glistening in the sun.
He would have dispatched him with a second blow, but Hagen threw himself over Gunthers body and received the sword-stroke on his own head. So well tempered was his helm that the blade flew in flinders, shivered to the handle.
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