Hardened by heat and cold

Usage examples of tempered.

Their adherence to the old system of Church discipline involved a reaction against the secularising process, which did not seem to be tempered by the spiritual powers of the bishops.

And probably the empress herself might have seen less reason for her admonitions on the subject, had it not been for the circumstance, which was no doubt unfortunate, that the royal family at this time contained no member of a graver age and a settled respectability of character who might, by his example, have tempered the exuberance natural to the extreme youth of the sovereigns and their brothers.

Only his eyes, the color of cold, tempered metal and the gold towers that linked him to Regis Aurum remained.

His groin tightened painfully at the thought, and he angrily tempered the burgeoning lust.

Gerald Donachie, whose dour Scots blood had been but imperfectly tempered by the fact that he had been born and bred in Chicago, and Mahmoud Ali Daud, the grave, dark Arab from Damascus.

Only now, it was misery tempered with growing fear as they drew nearer and nearer their goalthe small Field Magi settlement of Dunam north of the border of the Outland, about one hundred miles from the sea coast.

It became a prolonged exercise in mutual misunderstanding, which left Dunster unaffected and Robbie worse tempered than usual.

I can get a patient in time, in childhood, often a humiliating condition like dwarfism can be cured or tempered.

This piece of steel, after having been tempered, was fixed in as firm a way as possible in a solid framework planted in the ground, only a few feet from the great fall, the motive power of which the engineer intended to utilize.

Henry Hohenstaufen, becoming aware of the sentiment of admiration for the captive among his hostile feudatories, tempered his invective.

Psychological mechanisms which in our case are tempered with common sense or moral sense stood out in this world in flagrant excess.

Perhaps its yellowness tempered for his vision the icy lucency around.

And next vnto them a confection, of the iuice of Lymons tempered with fine Sugar, the seedes of Pines, Rose water, Muske, Saffron, and choyce Synamon, and thus were all the sawces made with conuenient gradation and deliuery.

What in her words, as here presented only to the eye, may seem brusqueness or even forwardness, was so tempered, so toned, so fashioned by the naivete with which she spoke, that it sounded in his ears as the utterance of absolute condescension.

The Wolfen in her wanted to react, but the human tempered those actions.