Citations:phlegmish

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English citations of phlegmish

  • 1966, The American Writer and the Great Depression[1], page 292:
    His concern soothed her and she breathed heavily, densely, with a thick phlegmish pity for herself.
  • 1976, Edward Dahlberg, Bottom Dogs, From Flushing to Calvary, Those who Perish, and Hitherto Unpublished and Uncollected Works[2]:
    His front legs doubled under him, and he lay down, his nose in his own water, biting the phlegmish froth and dust around his mouth and gaping like a stuffed animal in a taxidermist's window.
  • 2001, Stereophile[3], volume 24, numbers 7-12, page 123:
    This was plainly apparent with solo piano recordings; it seemed as if a layer of phlegmish tubercular congestion had been removed from between the strings.
  • 2012, Nabil Shehaby, The Propositional Logic of Avicenna: A Translation from al-Shifāʾ: al-Qiyās[4], translation of original by Avicenna:
    The example (for the third kind) when the (principal proposition) is separative is: 'Either this fever is either yellowish or scarlet, or this fever is either phlegmish or melancholic'.