The injured lion was choleric before the veterinarian helped it. From LearnThat.org.
A choleric outburst. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a choleric disposition. From Dictionary.com.
Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) ascribes this to "choleric" persons. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
In Greek and Roman medicine Excessive bile was supposed to produce an aggressive temperament, known as 'choleric'. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
Worse than the choleric temperament is the peevish, sullen nature. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
The choleric Scotchman immediately removed his headquarters to Las. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
Meanwhile the choleric Captain strode wrathful away to the council. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
Peter of the phlegmatic, Paul of the choleric and Mark of the sanguine. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
His successor was broad-built, choleric, but kind of heart, and came from. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Ap Morgan the choleric Welsh surgeon, are as familiar to us now as at the first. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Netta were getting redder and redder, and their inner man correspondingly choleric. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Accordingly, Milton is described by those who knew him as "a harsh and choleric man.". From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
He was always too choleric to hide his mind, and he answered with little pretense at civility. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
But it's also at that point that the drain is at its most unattractive: fetid, swampy, choleric. From Wordnik.com. [I can have my dream house, at least until I wake up] Reference
Our choleric contemporary is evidently unaware that we are allowing German prisoners to reside in. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914] Reference
Had he been a thin, brown, choleric, and nervous man, the tragedy would have ended in the first Act. Had he been. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
As a people, the former are of a choleric and melancholy temperament, the latter of a sanguine and phlegmatic one. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
This was the padre Altamirano that Cornelio was used to, choleric and prone to making threats he meant to carry out. From Wordnik.com. [The Damned Thing Out] Reference
He was choleric in temper and hasty in judgment, but the soul of kindness and generosity, and the servants loved him. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
The old heathen made out just four humors, as he called 'em, -- the sanguineous, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
The tents of commanding officers of notoriously choleric nature should be the objects of persistent attention in this way. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914] Reference
Of choleric temper, his manners were aggressive and authoritative, and he used his high position to advance his private interests. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Worsting the choleric physician in argument was a mere matter of keeping one's own temper, and Shelby took no pride in his victory. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
They found the farmer, a burly, red-faced, ultra-choleric man, excited over some recently-consummated dilapidations on his premises. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] 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
Kepler is described as small and meagre of person, and he speaks of himself as "troublesome and choleric in politics and domestic matters.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
The figure on the cover was a corpulent, choleric man who looked sort of like the old character actor Eugene Pallette with a walrus mustache. From Wordnik.com. [Ask Jeeves All About Him] Reference
Sakuntala is deeply absorbed in thoughts about her absent lord, the celebrated choleric sage Durvasa comes and demands the rights of hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
Melancholy persons are distinguished by their pale or lead-coloured nails; and choleric martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nails. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
I was obliged to comply, for there is no reasoning with the anxious mind of an attached wife! and I presented myself before our choleric commandant. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832] Reference
And a man less dramatic, less choleric, with less of a reputation for political intrigue than Miles Feversham might better have defended Stuart Foster. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Such animals, on the other hand, as have thick and abundant fibres in their blood are of a more choleric temperament, and liable to bursts of passion. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
He describes himself as 'troublesome and choleric in politics and domestic matters;' but in his relations with scientific men he was affable and pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
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