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phlegmatic
1. Footsteps on the stairs - Ben appears in the kitchen, his usual phlegmatic self
2. And thinking this, considering this with a phlegmatic regard, he felt all the anger and
3. He was phlegmatic over there
4. It was as if the whole Grand Canyon fell upon your feet and you couldn‘t decide whether you will wince in pain or just remain phlegmatic," he told me in a straightforward manner
5. close observer would have been astonished at discovering in his phlegmatic countenance
6. " A tear moistened the eye of the phlegmatic Englishman
7. Then there will be no blood, no groans, no convulsions, case of becoming a punishment, make a martyr of the victim, and a butcher, in every sense of and above all, no consciousness of that horrid and compromising moment of accomplishing the act,—then one escapes the clutch of the human law, which says, 'Do not disturb society!' This is the mode in which they manage these things, and succeed in Eastern climes, where there are grave and phlegmatic persons who care very little for the questions of time in conjunctures of importance
8. He seemed phlegmatic about it, but she was horrified
9. After these tender contests and her victory she would go away by herself under the remotest cow, if at milking-time, or into the sedge or into her room, if at a leisure interval, and mourn silently, not a minute after an apparently phlegmatic negative
10. Anyhow, whatever the origin of the relic, there was and is something sinister, or solemn, according to mood, in the scene amid which it stands; something tending to impress the most phlegmatic passer-by
11. The four sang on with the phlegmatic passivity of persons who had long ago settled the question, and there being no mistake about it, felt that further thought was not required
12. Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has at stake
13. may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but irreproachable; phlegmatic, but imperturbable
14. She said to her husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thenardier, masterful and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur Thenardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thenardier replied: "Everything is permissible
15. She said “Good morning, Miss,” in her usual phlegmatic and brief manner; and taking up another ring and more tape, went on with her sewing
16. The tall and phlegmatic Lord Ingram leans with folded arms on the chair-back of the little and lively Amy Eshton; she glances up at him, and chatters like a wren: she likes him better than she does Mr
17. ” The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having one’s ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment
18. He was, further, a man of phlegmatic and unforgiving character, and above all of great cunning—in fact a thorough Tartar—rather a courtier than a general, but redoubtable on account of his reputation
19. But that is just how it is, sometimes, especially in cases like the present one, with the decisions of the most precise and phlegmatic people
20. Pyotr Ilyitch was by no means phlegmatic at that moment
21. ” He is by nature phlegmatic and cynical