atrabilious

• Neither were those plump, rosy-gilled Englishmen that came hither, but a hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race, stiff from long wrestling with the Lord in prayer, and who had taught Satan to dread the new Puritan hug. —  The Biglow Papers
• The atrabilious, being ill at ease with themselves, see the workings everywhere of insidious sin, and conceive that the world is a dangerous place of trial. —  The Life of Reason
• A dreadful shiver ran through me if I had ventured to spend a couple of hours in some pleasure party Imagine the most wandering imagination and passionate temperament, the tenderest soul and most artistic nature, dwelling continually in the presence of the most flint-hearted, atrabilious, and frigid man on earth; think of me as a young girl married to a skeleton, and you will understand the life whose curious scenes can only be a hearsay tale to you; the plans for running away that perished at the sight of my father, the despair soothed by slumber, the dark broodings charmed away by music. —  The Magic Skin
• And I again inquire, What can be done by me to satisfy this atrabilious and ill-conditioned Aristarchus? —  Arabian nights. English
• I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians. —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

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