"Phlegmatically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... long she had not the vaguest notion. Cinders, grown tired of his own impatience, rested his chin on her shoulder and went phlegmatically to sleep, secure in her assurance that there was nothing whatever to be afraid of. Small creature though he was, her arms ached from holding him, yet she would not let him go, he was too precious for that; and each minute that passed, so she told ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell
... to thank anyone for the slightest favor, and I have seen a burly and phlegmatically sombre policeman smile with unexpected pleasure at receiving the sweet-faced "thank you!" with which she always acknowledged his pilotage ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland
... old man phlegmatically. "It is high time you were off. You are foolhardy to match your chances with justice. Prison ...
— The Princess Elopes • Harold MacGrath
... sir," returned the German phlegmatically, "intending to ask M. le President for his daughter's hand. It was my desire to give Mlle. Cecile a brilliant future by offering her so much of my fortune as she would consent to accept. But an only daughter is a child whose will is law to indulgent parents, who has never been contradicted. I have ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac |
