Adam was in a dreadful temper, and the fool had nearly destroyed their race once before.

He flew into the most dreadful temper, but though he turned the house topsy-turvy, he could not find a morsel of food.

If you refuse it will be a lifelong sorrow on a poor little orphan girl would you, even if she had a dreadful temper?

Anyhow,' said Ilse, 'whether I am myself or somebody else next time, I do hope I won't have such a dreadful temper.

My dreadful temper.

It's my dreadful temper!

Something in that old church upset me, and you know I have a dreadful temper.

A dreadful temper; I have given her notice to leave my service.

"You and your dreadful temper, Lestat," he said, but again it was the voice one uses to calm an overwrought child.

Those who knew her well realised that she was in a dreadful temper.