The person taking the tickets at the theater was bilious. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a long scarf of bright, bilious green. From Dictionary.com.
Therefore, to apply the term bilious to this temperament is not only unreasonable, but it is calculated to mislead. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Cook was now taken seriously ill and was confined to his bed for several days by what he calls the bilious cholic, during which time. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain James Cook]
I'm sure if Kevin had used the word bilious in his performance, I would have let him get away with it. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Music, A Memoir]
I think she believes that the word bilious gives the note a kind of medical validity, and she enjoys using it. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Music, A Memoir]
= Remittent Form (unfortunately termed "bilious"). From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
He doesn't care what kind of bilious lies he spreads. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: Obama Is An Extremist, "I Don't Know" If He's A Socialist] Reference
In many countries and in different languages, bad-tempered persons are said to be 'bilious'. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 29] Reference
What bothers me is not excessive praise but the kind of bilious grime that followed in the wake of Das Wunder der Heliane last year. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven's Messiah?] Reference
Anyway, can you tell me why you described some trousers and a jacket as 'bilious'?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Like all low countries, it is subject to malarious diseases, such as bilious fever and ague and fever. From Wordnik.com. [A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, &C., and an Account of the Swamp Lands of the State] Reference
Persons who are habitually subject to "bilious" attacks are pleased to find that the use of the "Discovery" and. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Again, see how the "bilious" theory works in every-day life here and now, illustrated by a case from actual life. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
"bilious" case, and is for giving a rousing emetic. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
"bilious" after a beetle and ha ha that all makes total sense and - no wait a minute, that makes no sense at all. From Wordnik.com. [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Research Note: Tristan MacAvery is credited with identifying the word "bilious" in the clause, "those bilious bastards ....". From Wordnik.com. [General Patton Addresses the 3rd Army] Reference
Use in all bilious diseases when purges are necessary. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
It is a fever -- something bilious but chiefly inflammatory. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
The little bilious man was not very pleasing; yet he attracted her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I looked at his tongue, pulled down his eyelid, and pronounced him bilious. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
This, and the want of exercise, communicated a somewhat bilious look to their appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850] Reference
There are occasional cases of bilious habit, in which eggs to be digested must be beaten in wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
Island, and breakfast must be discussed, and then once more I am with you, my anti-bilious ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
They have a bilious look, as if, in case of illness, their only hope would lie in calomel and jalap. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
The great bilious black comedies arose from a singular vision-from a Billy Wilder, a Bunuel, a Polanski. From Wordnik.com. [A Blast Of Hollywood Bile] Reference
Rocks heat up on top of an electric stove, and saunaers pour water on the rocks, producing bilious clouds of steam. From Wordnik.com. [Hot And Steamy In The Valley] Reference
Milton, together with all the American bottom, is subject to bilious and intermittent fevers during the warm months. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
Her large size, large brain, and preponderance of bilious temperament seemed to call for much sleep and moderate motion. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
Zoological Gardens, announced on the next to her friends that she had accepted the hand of a bilious East India merchant. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Böttiger is, in his account, most unwarrantedly severe on Ferriar, whom he calls “the bilious Englishman” who attacked. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Hence intermittent, nervous, putrid and bilious fevers, are common in the country, and prove fatal to many of its inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
This was attended with entire relief from frequent bilious spells; but the average of daily food was increased and the business of. From Wordnik.com. [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference
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