Much dining-out doth breed dyspepsia, and atrabilious views are apt to be a leetle lop-sided. |
The country has its eye on that knot of atrabilious Liberals whose voice is that of Jacob, but whose hands are the hands of Esau. |
An atrabilious monk in his garret vented his spleen with more than usual acrimony, and the world applauded. |
The atrabilious maladies to which artists were supposedly vulnerable included lovesickness and plague. |
I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians. |
The atrabilious temperament or melancholia is, according to Aristotle, a natural disposition in which there is a preponderance of black bile over the other humours. |