- Abate (of storm)
- Average style and speed
- Dare me to become referee
- Fair referee
- Kept within due bounds
- Making sense
- Meaningful (pause)
- Adjust tone of voice
- Tone down
- tweak
- To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain
portion.
- To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical
manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or
speaking.
- To pass from one key into another.
- Disposition
- Fit of pique somehow meant disguising usual disposition
- Frame of mind
- Moodiness
- Natural disposition
- Personality
- Peter met man adjusting person’s make-up
- Tone down the spice for it to be acceptable
- Become gentler
- Make more malleable
- Mollify
- Relax little feet in one's treatment
- Temper
- Warm (towards)
- To make soft or more soft.
- Bring under control
- Conquer
- Overcome
- Overpower U-boat before expected
- Quell
- Scheduled to arrive after U-boat defeat
- Tame