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Choler, is hot and dry, bitter, begotten of the hotter parts of the chylus, and gathered to the gall: it helps the natural heat and senses, and serves to the expelling of excrements.
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In some also, it may be though rarely the Drinesse of the Tongue; which likewise maketh it lesse apt to move, as well as Cold; For it is an Affect that it cometh to some Wise and Great Men; as it did unto Moses, who was Linguae Praepeditae of tangled tongue; And many Stutters we finde are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the tongue.
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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In some also, it may be though rarely the Drinesse of the Tongue; which likewise maketh it lesse apt to move, as well as Cold; For it is an Affect that it cometh to some Wise and Great Men; as it did unto Moses, who was Linguae Praepeditae of tangled tongue; And many Stutters we finde are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the tongue.
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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"And over there is Choler" - a nude and muscular young man, who certainly was scowling ferociously, without regard to the marble lion that was about to bite him smartly in the leg - "and that's Phlegm."
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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Choler, bile, and particularly by a certain _tumour_, or _flatulency_, which renders him, of all men, the least liable to apply the wholesome _regimen_ of self-practice.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various
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_Choler_, and _Fear_; certainly the last couple drew him with most violence, because they were not acquisititious, but _Naturall_; If he had not had that _Allay_, his high touring, and mastering _Reason_, had been of a _Rare_, and sublimed _Excellency_; but these earthy
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Soon after he goes to his Drab again, and to her he repeats what his Wife had said to him: which so far had rais'd her Choler, that she gives it vent in such Language as this:
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Ballance his _Choler_, it was Sanguine, which made his _Mirth Witty_.
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Taste, that it should not be burnt by the vehement burning Choler, as in the Herbal is at large express'd.
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The cause is, because the _Fæces_ of that thing are putrid and stinking in the Elements, that is the Choler or Heat; for whatsoever is unnaturally hot, hath a bitter Taste; the Air and the Taste are both one
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