Captain Aubrey's steward was an ill-faced, ill-tempered, meagre, atrabilious, shrewish man who kept his officer's uniform, equipment and silver in a state of exact, old-maidish order come wind or high water. From LearnThat.org. [Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days]
Nor heed the frown or looks cast down of atrabilious friars. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Which makes what he said an atrabilious ranting I learned that word today HeHe. From Wordnik.com. [White Mob Disrupts Black Meeting] Reference
Foreigners and long-haired æsthetes were one and the same thing to my atrabilious instructor. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
This quandary is a typically anodyne European compromise which is bound to ferment into atrabilious discourse and worse. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
His appreciation of men, their character, their talents, their designs -- all bear the hue of the atrabilious journalist. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Senatorial Washington, this atrabilious knight of the plume devotes two columns of his valuable space to explaining away. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anderson] Reference
No doubt the usual cavalcade of atrabilious right-wing commentators will work overtime to try and distort Obama's remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Ennobling Speech] Reference
But despite the gloomy nonsense of certain atrabilious dreamers, the wonderful era of the Greeks was that of the reign of the courtesans. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes] Reference
Nor are the ‘atrabilious’ addicted to sleep, for in them the inward region is cooled so that the quantity of evaporation in their case is not great. From Wordnik.com. [On Sleep and Sleeplessness] Reference
Aristotle, who says all great characters are more or less atrabilious, as Socrates and Plato and Hercules were, writes, that Lysander, not indeed early in life, but when he was old, became thus affected. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
But incontinence results from the bodily temperament: for the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 7) that "it is especially people of a quick or choleric and atrabilious temper whose incontinence is one of unbridled desire.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Molière, was atrabilious; and Molière himself, saturnine. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
"As long as you like -- But you'll never make it!" he added with an atrabilious eye. From Wordnik.com. [Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest] Reference
It is a yellow-walled, yellow-shuttered, symbolically atrabilious-looking place, with twenty-three front windows. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"] Reference
I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
And some eminent men, in their atrabilious moments, have fancied that they discerned the presence of such attendants. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrations of Sterne, with other essays and verses] Reference
Up from the village now and then comes to visit me the tall, gaunt, atrabilious confectioner, who has a hankering after. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference
With its solemn doctors, its insipid canonists, its hypocritical and atrabilious devotees, Jerusalem has not conquered humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus] Reference
There was medical evidence to show that, in his atrabilious state, it was quite on the cards that he might have made away with himself. From Wordnik.com. [Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle] Reference
To be sure they have eyes drunk with dreams, the pointed skull of the mystic, and betray a plentiful lack of chin and often an atrabilious nature. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
But the torch of taste has for the moment fallen into the hands of little men, anæmic and atrabilious, with neither laughter nor pity in their hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies] Reference
N. - study of laws of watery vapour. atrabilious adj. - very melancholic; hypochondriac. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
A race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians. From Wordnik.com. [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference
I only know in general that the people we are going to see are very atrabilious. ". From Wordnik.com. [Candide] Reference
I understand his temperament quite as well as I do yours, sir, which is atrabilious. ". From Wordnik.com. [Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop] Reference
And print his atrabilious rhyme?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891] Reference
He may have met with atrabilious eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
"He must be atrabilious then?" askt his hearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck] Reference
How balefully those atrabilious eyes glistened!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
` atrabilious '!. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference
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