The hermit was said to suffer from choler and was avoided because of that. From LearnThat.org.
Too much choler is a bad thing, it will eat out your insides. From Wordnik.com. [Choler « So Many Books] Reference
The "great silence" was significant of the embarrassment in which they were placed, and their awe of the "choler" of the Governor. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply] Reference
Hinder me not of my prayer, nor drive me not into a choler. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
Watching, and choler, and gripes, are with an intemperate man. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
'Nay, now I am full south again! burning with shame and choler!. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Then addressing the speaker in a voice of assumed choler, exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference
At this the grief and choler of Alcides blazed forth dark and infuriate. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Frank went back to his employer, whose commercial choler rose at the report. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
For in many meats there will be sickness, and greediness will turn to choler. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
We cut your pockets to suit ourselves, but furnish you as much choler as you can stand. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870] Reference
Unfortunately, this Bwikov is a man of such choler that — Well, things are as they are. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
It hath the same causes as the other, as choler adust, and blood incensed, brains inflamed, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
But, now permit me to laugh at the thought of Montfanon's choler when I relate to him this baptism. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The host interfered to allay the rising choler of his guests, and Las Casas shortly after withdrew. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
She tapped with a tiny toe on the pebbles, affecting a choler the twinkle in her eyes did not homologate. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Most disturbing, though, is what Jersey Shore's choler says about a potential return to civility in America. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Maxwell Apter: From Snooki to the Situation, the New Jersey Shore Is Way Too Mean] Reference
Yet the minute she had exhausted her choler, she turned, coolly collected, to the head of the detail with apologies. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
As much therefore may I say to you; Take this fellow to you, and treat him as you please; for I am in a fit of choler. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
These sacrilegious acts roused the choler of the people; open rebellion was the natural result; and the people were victorious. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
You could not contradict him, but you raised quick choler; you could not speak of wealth, but his cheek paled with gnawing envy. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
But the next moment, observing his choler to be rapidly on the increase, I was conscious that this plan would be worse than useless. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
Then she added a little: "Take thou heed; from thee hath issued a bird of harm, in choler a wild screech-owl, in tongue a tuneful swan.". From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
And we, having noted the grace of those words, hale them in sometime to a familiar epistle, when it were to too much choler to be choleric. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
The sudden air-bath probably cooled his choler, for, in a few moments, we found ourselves in a pacific explanation about the luckless pencil. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Nor content with reproaches, but getting before us, he lift up one leg, and, venturing his choler at the wrong end, filled our nostrils with a beastly scent. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
He didn't much like tartness in responses, but the Secretary of Defense, unfortunately, was hardly a subordinate, and therefore not subject to the general's choler. From Wordnik.com. [Minor Detail] Reference
The Choleric again are excessively vehement, and are angry at everything, and on every occasion; whence comes their Greek name signifying that their choler lies high. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
The position in which the mayor and his deputy sat, on the box of the chaise, continually presenting them to the eye of my companion, kept his choler peculiarly active. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
Yes or no, did I yield to the paroxysm of choler which possessed me on hearing of the engagement of Ardea and on finding that I was in the presence of that equivocal Hafner?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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