They are great talkers, keenly sensitive to ridicule, and quick-tempered.
She is very quick-tempered and wilful, and nobody, except her brother James, has attempted to control her.
They are a thrifty and industrious people, prolific and devoted to their offspring, good-humoured, quick-tempered and impressionable.
He was pious, charitable, of unimpeachable morality, quick-tempered but placable, no great scholar, and only energetic as a hunter.
He was quick-tempered, but of kindly disposition, intelligent and patriotic, and he left a reputation of unblemished honesty and uprightness.
