Sentence:  At the Stag and Antlers old Mrs. Crocket, than whom no old woman in the public line was ever more generous, more <WSD>peppery</WSD>, or more kind, kept two clean bedrooms, and could cook a leg of Dartmoor mutton and make an apple pie against any woman in Devonshire. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Having a fiery temperament.