A lively looking porter stood on the rear platform of a sleeping-car in the Pennsylvania station when a fussy and choleric old man clambered up the steps.
He appears to have been a man of great energy and originality of character, concealing an excellent heart under the roughest manners and most choleric of tempers.
I visualised the choleric blue eye of the Colonel and shuddered.
Jeanne was a choleric person and a miser.
The choleric eyes of the president softened a little, and grew grave as they studied the impassive face of the young man.
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Whilst the influence of thischolericcleric and prodigious writer was enormous, scholarly interest has been slight.
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Diseases (such as quotidian fever) that originate in phlegm are more frequent than diseases that originate incholerichumor, such as tertiary fever.
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Perhaps it was the effect of the hot summer; he was occasionallycholeric.
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Cholericcritics of our youth today talk about juvenile delinquency.
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He yells at the servants for serving mutton, acholericfood, to two people who are alreadycholeric.
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Four elements (earth, air, fire and water) combine into complexion, which combines into states (the four temperaments: sanguine, phlegmatic,choleric, and melancholic).
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Pupils found him a somewhatcholericand exacting master and a great recluse from academic society.
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A person showing signs of phlegmatism might have been served wine (acholericdrink and the direct opposite humor to phlegmatic) to balance this.
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This is also related to the classical elements of air, water, earth, and fire; as sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic, andcholeric, respectively.
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The melancholy andcholeric, however, shared a sustained response, and the sanguine and phlegmatic shared a short-lived response.
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The melancholic andcholeric, however, shared a sustained response (dryness), and the sanguine and phlegmatic shared a short-lived response (wetness).
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Put in terms of the 5 factor level of personality,cholericpeople are high in neuroticism and high in extraversion.
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It was traditionally held to be hot and excessively dry and ruled thecholerichumor.
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Also, the melancholy and sanguine would be sort of opposites, as thecholericand phlegmatic, since they have opposite traits.
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His temperament was impulsive andcholeric, and his education but modest.
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