A lively looking porter stood on the rear platform of a sleeping-car in the Pennsylvania station when a fussy and choleric old man clambered up the steps.
He appears to have been a man of great energy and originality of character, concealing an excellent heart under the roughest manners and most choleric of tempers.
I visualised the choleric blue eye of the Colonel and shuddered.
The choleric eyes of the president softened a little, and grew grave as they studied the impassive face of the young man.
Whilst the influence of this choleric cleric and prodigious writer was enormous, scholarly interest has been slight.
Diseases (such as quotidian fever) that originate in phlegm are more frequent than diseases that originate in choleric humor, such as tertiary fever.
Perhaps it was the effect of the hot summer; he was occasionally choleric.