lose temper
Example Sentences
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Of course no lady or gentleman will lose temper under such circumstances.
From Dinners and Luncheons Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions by Paul Pierce
The young Frenchman, who was of an excitable disposition, at last thinking that the English boys were laughing at him, began to lose temper, and so did they, at what they considered his unexampled stupidity.
From Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston
Quiet enough these animals are at times, but whatever other travellers may say, I advise you to keep out of their track when they lose temper.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables
Indeed, during all the too short time I had the pleasure in being in this man's company I never saw him lose temper: and yet, remember, he was one of England's ablest warriors.
From With Ring of Shield by Knox Magee
O'Hara looked at him, undecided whether to lose temper or laugh; finally, again turned to the glass and resumed the operation on his beard with a studious show of deliberateness.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
