For I mistrusted sore my spark's humility; your German nobles being, to my knowledge, proud as Lucifer, and choleric as fire.
Because choleric humours are received into it, which through their acidity helps the guts to expel superfluities; also it helps digestion.
Because for the most part, choleric men have harder and thicker hair than others, by reason of their heat, and because their pores are always open, and therefore they have beards sooner than others.
Because by the ear choleric superfluity is purged; for as the head is purged of phlegmatic superfluity by the nose, so from choleric, by the ears.
Therefore keepers of baths have often curled hair, as also Ethiopians and choleric men.
And by the same reason the gall causes anger, for choleric men are often angry, because they have much gall.
By reason that the seed of them both hath not a like proportion, as if the man be melancholy and the woman sanguine, or the man choleric and the woman phlegmatic.
The fever that follows breeding of teeth comes from choleric humours, inflamed by watching, pain and heat.
It is occasioned by the corruption of the meat, and the corruption of phlegm with a choleric humour.
Pleasant, merry dreams do follow the sanguine; fearful dreams, the melancholic; the choleric dream of children fighting and fire; the phlegmatic dream of water.
Two drams of the seed drank in wine, purges the body of choleric humours, and helps those that are stung by scorpions, or other venomous beasts, and may be as effectual for the plague.
It stops bleeding, both inward and outward, helps cankers, and all fretting sores and ulcers; it abates the heat of choler, thereby preventing diseases arising from choleric humours.
The decoction of the leaves of Mercury, or the juice thereof in broth, or drank with a little sugar put to it, purges choleric and waterish humours.
They are herbs of Mars, and as choleric and churlish as he is, being most violent purges, especially of choler and phlegm.
I see his head," exclaimed the choleric old man, "damme, I see his head.
Being a choleric little man, he would assuredly have done so fully and freely had not a red light illumined the tree-tops, while the crackle of a fire was distinctly audible.
Joos, like most men of choleric disposition, was useless in a crisis of this sort.
Looking from the window, she saw, and not without concern, from the contrast to the good humour which she had herself experienced, that this choleric reproacher was Sir Jaspar Herrington.
He says, that he came into the world with a choleric disposition, but that his temperate way of life had enabled him to subdue it.
I, therefore, resolved to make my choleric disposition give way to reason; so that now, though born choleric, I never suffer anger intirely to overcome me.
Say no more, my brave fellow, say no more," interrupted Wilder's considerate but choleric Commander.
The words of Wilder, aided as they were by an earnest and manly manner, laid a restraint on the mounting indignation of the choleric old seaman.
This drastic step rather frightened the choleric Bullock, especially when, on further consideration, he found that he was in the wrong.
His complexion was a dusky red, while his choleric blue eyes peered beneath a pair of beetling bushy eyebrows.
Literary work offered but a poor sphere for such a character, while the enforced inactivity of court life soured a naturally capricious and choleric temper.
Mitrofan Krilov praised himself, overjoyed with the hidden and spiteful delight of a choleric man.
Yet the part which has generally been supposed the most difficult, the insanity of Lear, is scarcely more so than that of the choleric old king.
If he now and then flies into an unreasonable burst of passion about trifles, he observes, that John Bull is a choleric old blade, but then his passion is over in a moment, and he bears no malice.
Choleric he is not by nature so much as his art, and it is a shrewd temptation that the chopping-knife is so near.
Wyatt had been speaking in a low tone to the chiefs, and it inflamed a choleric man like Alloway to hear anyone saying words that he could not understand.
Colonel Alloway, a brave man, though choleric and cruel, was exasperated beyond endurance.
By the same rule should the choleric and the patient be united, and the ambitious and the humble; for the opposites of their natures not only produce pleasurable excitement, but each keeps the other in a wholesome check.
An amiable wife to a choleric man is like oil to troubled waters; an ill-tempered one will make his life a misery and his home a hell.
The tall should marry the short, the corpulent the lean, the choleric the gentle, and so on, and the tendency to extremes in the parents will be corrected in the offspring.
Legendre is a choleric butcher, who even in the Convention maintains his butchering traits.
In the last analysis a high self-valuation is part of the chronic choleric make-up, a conceit of overweening proportions.
Of the monothymic types the choleric or angry are about as common as those predisposed to fear.
Sanguine and choleric temperament, the bilious, the nervous and the phlegmatic, the quick and the slow, all these are broad divisions, and no man really exemplifies them.
That in the captain's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Are you socholeric With Eleanor for telling but her dream?
Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
The excrements of it are either cholericor watery, which the other subordinate parts convey.
How should a man choose but be choleric and angry, that hath his body so clogged with abundance of gross humours?
Another suitor I had was a very choleric fellow; but I so handled him, that for all his fuming, I brought him upon his knees.
In hot choleric bodies, nothing so soon causeth madness, as this passion of anger, besides many other diseases, as Pelesius observes, cap.
Fessa urbe, Ortelius and Zuinger, confirm as much: they are ordinarily so choleric in their speeches, that scarce two words pass without railing or chiding in common talk, and often quarrelling in their streets.
As it was clear that he was a choleric fellow in some respects, Mr Swiveller was relieved to find him in such good humour, and, to encourage him in it, smiled himself.
He did no work for two or three years before he died, but lived in clover; and his last act (like a choleric old gentleman) was to kick his doctor.
The wisdom of moderation, and calm forbearance, was in Schell a virtue of the highest order; he was my continual mentor; my guide, whenever my cholerictemperament was disposed to violence.
But there flitted through my mind that horrid doubt which has flitted through the minds of so many choleric old gentlemen in the course of the past hundred years and more: 'Will The Times put my letter in?
There sprang from my lips that fiery formula which has sprung from the lips of so many choleric old gentlemen in the course of the past hundred years and more: 'I shall write to The Times.
This action by no means increased the amity between him and his rather stupid and choleric superior.
It is singular but true, that in the days of our ancestors a choleric temper was considered an unfailing index of the masterful man.
