Sentence examples for fire tempered from inspiring English sources

Over the next century, Queen Zenobia's story was repeated and embellished as she slowly morphed into the Braveheart of the Arab world.Queen of the desertEdward Gibbon wrote that she had large black eyes that "sparkled with uncommon fire, tempered by the most attractive sweetness".

General Jodice's comments, coming on Sunday as former rebel fighters battled their way into the heart of Surt and then were driven back by sniper and mortar fire, tempered the boasts of anti-Qaddafi forces that Surt would soon be theirs and once again underscored the limitations that have confronted NATO throughout the air campaign.

He had fire, temper and a desire to win.

That is, while fire suppression did result in a net increase in the abundance of subalpine fir under all climate scenarios, the benefits of less fire were tempered by climate change.

They can believe the 'scientists,' with all their molten core and fractured crust hoo-ha, or they can believe that God, in His wisdom, has sentenced a race of orcs to inhabit the deep and that they, during times of terrestrial unrest, amass great armies beneath our feet that would unleash upon us the fire and anguish tempered in their hellish crucible".

From that moment, Nelson's ambition, fired by patriotism tempered by the Christian compassion instilled by his father, urged him to prove himself at least the equal of his eminent kinsmen.

If you are anxious to begin using the forge sooner, build a small "curing" fire in the fire pit to temper the masonry before getting it really hot.

And while age and experience may have tempered the fire, Mr. Gartner still believes he is in the fight.

The exuberance is tempered by "Fire in the Cockpit," which features an account of the 1967 deaths of three astronauts during rehearsals for the launch of Apollo 1.

(Chinen) *CECIL TAYLOR TRIO (Tuesday and Wednesday) The leonine father figure of free-jazz piano has lost none of his percussive fire, but he tempers it here with his poetry, which tends toward the mysterious and metaphysical.

American servicemen, their sword of valour never, as it were, tempered in the fire of real combat, are in a strange, volatile mood: relieved, euphorically triumphant, oddly frustrated.