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  • Choleric faces of red and purple, heavily powdered dowagers with set white hair.

    'Sepulchre' 2008

  • Choleric faces of red and purple, heavily powdered dowagers with set white hair.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • 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.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • Choleric, martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nails.

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

  • Terrible_, soon, it is devoutly hoped, to be packed off to school, and the dreadful Schoolboy home for the holidays; the Choleric Old Gentleman and the comfortable Materfamilias; Miss Clara and the Heavy Dragoon; the

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • Choleric old gentlemen have been roused to frenzy over your misdeeds.

    "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

  • Choleric he was, with the superficial and temporary choler of the schoolmaster.

    The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912

  • Choleric men have eyes of every colour, but rather brown or greenish than blue.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

  • Choleric he was, with the superficial and temporary choler of the schoolmaster.

    The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904

  • Choleric and/[Page lxv]/arbitrary he may have been in discourse with her, overwhelming objurgations may perhaps have rolled from his tongue, but the moment he took pen in hand he did her more than justice.

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

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