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Those knowledgeable in the game predicted that he would never make a first-class fighter because he was too phelgmatic and machine-like, and showed none of the flair and flash expected of a boxer.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Those knowledgeable in the game predicted that he would never make a first-class fighter because he was too phelgmatic and machine-like, and showed none of the flair and flash expected of a boxer.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Those knowledgeable in the game predicted that he would never make a first-class fighter because he was too phelgmatic and machine-like, and showed none of the flair and flash expected of a boxer.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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Every night we hear fire crackers popping all about and crowds of boys slip around out of sight of the phelgmatic marshall
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Do you think, consul, that this phelgmatic gentleman resembles, feature by feature, the robber whose description I have received?”
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Do you think, consul, that this phelgmatic gentleman resembles, feature by feature, the robber whose description I have received? "
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word phelgmatic
See also sanguine, melancholy and choleric.
July 22, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word phelgmatic
And perhaps phlegmatic also?
July 22, 2009