As we pass, the German N.C.O. often looks up to salute the officer who is with us, and the general aspect of the menat any rate of the younger menis cheerfully phlegmatic.

I acknowledge life at all only by an occasional convulsional cough and a permanent phlegmatic pain in the chest.

Heavy and phlegmatic he trod the stage, Too proud for tenderness, too dull for rage.

The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those who prematurely boil, and who impatiently break the silence before their time.

It was not a very elegant structure: it was, in fact, a plain, phlegmatic aggregation of brick and mortar, calculated to charm no body externally, and evidently patronised for absolute internal rapture.

She did things, said things, and felt things with the instantaneous intensity of the poetic temperament; but she was quite capable of looking at them afterward, and weighing them with the cool and unbiassed judgment of the most phlegmatic realist.

Dreamy and inert and phlegmatic people shiver and huddle, see only the sombreness, and find the winter one long imprisonment in the dark.

A thing to jar the most phlegmatic.

" The next day passed all too slowly, but work was over at last, and Mr. Kidd led the way over London Bridge a yard or two ahead of the more phlegmatic Mr. Brown.

"But I ask thee whether he is lively or phlegmatic, cautious or imprudent?"

They produced a greater number of orators and speculative divines in proportion to their wealth and number than the Dutch, who were phlegmatic and fond of ease and comfort, and did not like to be disturbed by the discussion of novelties.

"He is phlegmatic as well from natural disposition as from will," remarks an Italian contemporary.

Savanarola adds, cold, moist: and phlegmatic, Isaac; and therefore unwholesome for all cold and melancholy complexions: others make a difference, rejecting only amongst freshwater fish, eel, tench, lamprey, crawfish (which Bright approves, cap.

The Englishman was phlegmatic.

I think nothing would have moved him from that phlegmatic calm of his!

W.G.C. The following is said to be an unpublished epigram of Lord Byron: An old phlegmatic Dutchman took A pretty Jewish wife, And what still more surprising is, He lov'd her 'bove his life

So, we found the supposedly excitable French digging in to receive the onslaught of the supposedly phlegmatic German.

You could not arrest the whole population and lead them off to jail; and if you bayoneted a fewwhich really those phlegmatic, comfortable old Landsturms would not have the heart to do for such a little thingwhy, it would get into the American Press, and the Berlin Foreign Office would say: "There you are, you soldiers, breaking all the crockery again!"

No troops are more military than the first line Germans; but in the snap and spirit of his salute the French Territorial has an élan, a martial fervour, which the phlegmatic German in the thirties lacks.

One day a phlegmatic Englishman interrupted the interpreter.

"Be calm," said that phlegmatic individual.

"No," said Father Payne, "I shrank from the strainyou phlegmatic, aristocratic people,men-of-the-world, blasés, highly-born and highly-placed,have no conception of the strain these things are on a child of nature.

Those phlegmatic experts made a thorough investigation of the resources of the establishment, and departed mysteriously, after the fashion of the common plumber of civilisation, into space.

Were the real condition of these natureswhich certainly existbared to view, many from their phlegmatic experience might deem all the nerves to be in a state of excitation, when in fact they saw only normal and healthy play.

He will pass you by with phlegmatic indifference, he will not throw things at you, neither will he help you unless strongly appealed to, and then not over-zealously or over-intelligently; his application is short-lived and he hurries on; but the other hoodlum will stay with you all night if necessary, finding, no doubt, the automobile a pleasant diversion from a bed on the grass.