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  • Bourgeois Nerd: I Think It Was "Phlegmatic" That Tripped Me Up

    I Think It Was "Phlegmatic" That Tripped Me Up 2006

  • Phlegmatic dealers of somber mien admitted some promise, but pointed out the difficulty of sales.

    The Titan 2004

  • Phlegmatic (excess phlegm), sanguine (excess blood), choleric (excess yellow bile), and melancholic (excess black bile) are expressions with which we are familiar when referring to personality types.

    What Works When Life Doesn’t Stuart Briscoe 2004

  • Rather, “St. Phlegmatic” may latch on to promises such as “Being justified by faith, we have peace.”

    If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts? Dr. Lynn Anderson 2000

  • Phlegmatic and blunt, Derwent argued for the sake of dissention.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Phlegmatic, obstinate, yet conscious of his own weakness, personal conflicts with a nature equally obstinate and much more vigorous were exceedingly unpleasant.

    Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

  • Phlegmatic, even comal, and most difficult to move in most things, yet any 'interference' wakes up the dormant spirit which that Prince of Orange so forcibly expressed when he said, in response to a prudent soldier's ear of consequences if resistance were persisted in, 'We can at least die in the last ditch.'

    Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

  • Phlegmatic men lay upon their backs, across the seats, with their legs dangling in the aisles.

    The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker

  • Phlegmatic dealers of somber mien admitted some promise, but pointed out the difficulty of sales.

    The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • Phlegmatic, obstinate, yet conscious of his own weakness, personal conflicts with a nature equally obstinate and much more vigorous were exceedingly unpleasant.

    Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908

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