tempered

Example Sentences

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The soul gives up to it with confidence, hoping that its means of fiction will he retempered.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette

A sewing-needle, first softened and flattened into a blade, then retempered and sharpened, gives me a most delicate scalpel.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The steel was then retempered to withstand high impact pressures.

From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by Campbell, J. Duncan

In the corner of their rooms, after a time, stood a fair variety of tools, some already serviceable, others waiting to be polished, ground and hefted, and in some cases retempered.

From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan

Tawabinisáy then burned out the wood from the axe, retempered the steel, set the new helve, and wedged it neatly with ironwood wedges.

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward