phlegmatical

To our surprise, the lean, mean killing machine turns out to be a "phlegmatical," "pale sot."

Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010

’ ‘Are my books perhaps, ’ quoth the innkeeper, ‘heretical or phlegmatical, that you would thus roughly handle them?

The Fourth Book. V. Treating of That Which Befel All Don Quixote His Train in the Inn 1909

’ ‘Schismatical, thou shouldst have said, ’ quoth the barber, ‘and not phlegmatical.

The Fourth Book. V. Treating of That Which Befel All Don Quixote His Train in the Inn 1909

We must even acknowledge that the little Queen-bee fell into a few excesses, such as jumping over ditches where they were the broadest, and clapping her hands and shouting to frighten away phlegmatical crows.

The Home Fredrika Bremer 1833

"What phlegmatical reasons soever were made you," wrote the Queen, who but three weeks before had been so gentle and affectionate to her, ambassador, "how happeneth it that you will not remember, that when a man hath faulted and committed by abettors thereto, neither the one nor the other will willingly make their own retreat.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

"What phlegmatical reasons soever were made you," wrote the Queen, who but three weeks before had been so gentle and affectionate to her, ambassador, "how happeneth it that you will not remember, that when a man hath faulted and committed by abettors thereto, neither the one nor the other will willingly make their own retreat.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845

"What phlegmatical reasons soever were made you," wrote the Queen, who but three weeks before had been so gentle and affectionate to her, ambassador, "how happeneth it that you will not remember, that when a man hath faulted and committed by abettors thereto, neither the one nor the other will willingly make their own retreat.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

"What phlegmatical reasons soever were made you," wrote the Queen, who but three weeks before had been so gentle and affectionate to her, ambassador, "how happeneth it that you will not remember, that when a man hath faulted and committed by abettors thereto, neither the one nor the other will willingly make their own retreat.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586b John Lothrop Motley 1845