Having taken the trouble to arrive early, he favored the new man with a distempered look.

What have I to do with your distempered dreams?

WhiteTail sighed heavily and cast a distempered look at her father.

WhiteTail shot him a distempered look and then turned to look at the pocket park.

Young son, it argues a distempered head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed.

You'll be walking in your sleep next, my woman, and playing the whole round of your distempered antics.

A sudden spear of light strikes across the distempered roof timbers.

My distempered fancy fashioned to itself no distinguishable image.

'The wounded surgeon plies the steel that questions the distempered part.

In 1987 the paper was reprinted from the original "Rutland blocks", using distempered colours.

I wish you won't fall into such distempered freaks, Phoebe!'

The streets are straight and spacious, though not paved in a way to incite distempered admiration.

I noticed the scratching on the distempered walls.

But, for your farther satisfaction, take this along with you: that which at other times seems sweet, shall, to a distempered palate, appear bitter.

An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.

"This is the vision of a delirious and distempered dream, which passes away at the cold clear light of morning.

All the wild pictures which his distempered imagination drew were equally inspired by that one obstinate conviction.

I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action.

There were only about a dozen people dotted here and there sitting in patient silence under the plain distempered walls.

The technique of painting on distempered surfaces blends watercolors with whiting and glue.

That questions the distempered part.

Even my furious and distempered mind recognised it as being a solemn and courteous leave-taking.

She believed the light and sound to be phantoms of my lady's distempered fancy, and searched merely to satisfy her.

So he packed his servitors out again, and his distempered court, which had wanted to come in and work havoc.

The paintings are executed in charcoal, pastel and distemper - using distempered pigment, common for theatrical scenery.

I asked him if the distemper had not reached them.

"And what if I am not of like distemper to wish you as my husband?"

"Do you believe in the influence of the moon upon distempers?"

"Those things will help to keep your body strong against the distemper.

Do you think he might have distemper or something, Louis?"

She tried not to worry about Joe, although his distemper had now lasted six weeks.

Every Age, like every human body, has its own distemper.

"The natural, original distemper of man is presumption," I more or less heard him say.

A distemper epidemic in 1992 closed the sanctuary for almost a year.

The distemper shot (the first in a series of three) cost $25.

Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper?

In 1963, the population was further decimated by another outbreak of distemper.

Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island."

In Germany, the first eight cases of distemper were reported in 2007.

The Directions also took active part in the fight against the spreading of distemper.

Maybe we can keep the distemper lighter, that way.

Now, one of the Russian tigers has died from canine distemper.

Maybe I should apologize for my distemper this morning.

For heavenly minds from such distempers foul Are ever clear.

I therefore believe if this be in part a natural distemper, there is something preternatural too.

New plasterwork must be quite dry before distemper is applied.

Costello made several public statements that did little to hide his distemper at the decision.

In 1736, an epidemic of throat distemper killed 47 children and nine adults.

Then one evening a man brought in a dog for a distemper inoculation and left the front door open.

The animal probably contracted the distemper virus from a domestic dog.

The room was rather dark, but the walls were distempered and it was very clean.

The walls were distempered a pale grey, and a gas fire was burning.

The walls of the Chapel was distempered over, hiding the murals from view.

They took him down a short hall, distempered in scabby green, and across an open cobbled court.

"Did you tell him that the co-respondent had helped you distemper the walls?"

It is but as a body yet distempered; Which to his former strength may be restored With good advice and little medicine.

The interior of the huts was generally limewashed or distempered.

After plastering, the brick walls were washed or distempered.

The walls were distempered an ascetic pale gray, and various reproductions hung upon them.

The ribbed vault of this square room was distempered during the renovations of 1727.

Any social organism can become psychically distempered just as any individual can, especially in times of difficulty.

Only the beads in the doorway rustled, as Nunzia's disapproval distempered the air.

This was the less objectionable, as she never snored or grew distempered in complexion when she slept.

There was a report that Peter had carefully cleaned and newly distempered the wall which he had spoilt by scribbling.

My fancy became suddenly distempered, and my brain was turned into a theatre of uproar and confusion.

"If you can distemper walls."

In the ceiling there was visible what might have been an original oak cross-beam, but it had been unceremoniously distempered with the rest.

I repeat, therefore, that it must have been simply a freak of my own fancy, distempered by good Captain Hardy's green tea.

Distempered enough to tug at the knots in his beard, Sethvir snapped back to the displaced thread of conversation.

"He helped me distemper these walls; in fact, he practically did them, while I did the bathroom--these are better."

"On the following evening, and the evening after that he came to the unfurnished rooms I was going into and helped me to distemper the walls."

The weather had distempered even this impassive creature; and as I went on upstairs I was the less ashamed of my own discomposure.

I distempered our privy, didn't I?'

This distempered spirit was lodged, as before hinted, in as distempered a frame.

I began to think he had been in the condition of my late lover, and that his wife had been distempered or lunatic, or some such thing.