First, let me remind you that your wife promised me a good scolding in answer to my crotchety letter and my splenetic mood.
Gnawed by his splenetic mood, he sat twitching his beard, while to little purpose the hand of his servant, mute as that on the wall, slowly pushed over the Canary.
This splenetic disrelish of his place was evinced in almost every function pertaining to it.
Or do you mount the pulpit with a spleneticheart and, with frantic gestures and a voice hoarse with passion denounce the criticism as "infernal rubbish"?
Even the atheist has his uses; nay, even the splenetic preacher may fill an important niche in the great world's economy--may be a real blessing in disguise.
It has pleased Heaven to give me a splenetic disposition, and some day or other I shall find the tongue.
To scorn and revile wealth is the mere resource of splenetic poverty.
Beethoven's splenetic remarks to strangers in his last years upon the music, musicians and public of Vienna have given rise to widely diffused but utterly false conceptions as to the facts.
The duchess unmasked very graciously as the ambassador was presented; but, said the splenetic diplomatist, "I took no pleasure in it, nor held it any grace at all.
His companion asked for a description of the young lady, and he gave one remarkable for splenetic exaggeration.
Dyce had relieved himself of a slight splenetic oppression, and felt that he was behaving boorishly.
It helps the dropsy, arising from the hardness of the spleen, and therefore to drink out of cups made of the wood is good for splenetic persons.
Camerarius saith, That the distilled water thereof being drank, is very effectual against the stone in the reins and bladder; and that the lye that is made of the ashes thereof being drank for some time together, helps splenetic persons.
We have had not only wonderful travellers in this vile world, but splenetic travellers, and of these not a few, and also conspicuous enough.
Johnson, bred in the luxuriance of London, with more reason should become cross and splenetic in the bleak and dreary regions of the Hebrides.
Save in the splenetic outbursts of Byron--and they are not to be taken too seriously--the indispensable laws of Aristotelian criticism fell silent at Johnson's death.
A splenetic and idle discontent with the existing institutions of society seems to be at the bottom of all their serious and peculiar sentiments.
The old Bastille Electors, after some ten days of psalmodying over their glorious victory, began to hear it asked, in a splenetic tone, Who put you there?
Montgaillard, with his splenetic eye, notes a no less strange thing; that every fashionable Citoyenne you meet is in an interesting situation.
The Lists, cries splenetic Abbe Montgaillard, were not complete.
I perceive, my dear sir, that I am at intervals for indulging this splenetic manner, and following my own taste, regardless of yours.
He then returned straight to his dwelling; but there had come a recklessness over him, a sort of moody and splenetic demeanour, which was remarked by Harvey and all his companions.
I might say the same, in some degree, of the others; it being almost impossible for the mind to change its character in any considerable article, or cure itself of a passionate or splenetic temper, when they are natural to it.
For those are my sentiments in thatsplenetic humour, which governs me at present.
Mr. Kean's Hamlet is as much too spleneticand rash as Mr. Kemble's is too deliberate and formal.
This is a true and beautiful description of a naturally quiet and contented disposition, and not, like the former, the splenetic effusion of disappointed ambition.
The portrait is not very highly coloured: Elshender of Mucklestane Moor had scarcely a sourer or more splenetic humour than David Ritchie, though he may have been a trifle more comprehensive in his misanthropy.
Of all the men of the Revolution, Robespierre has suffered most from the audacious idolatry of some writers, and the splenetic impatience of others.
Disappointment with the course of events colours his account of Anne's reign, and renders him splenetic and querulous.
