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Once cholerically opposed by classical financiers, he can now, as Baron Keynes, boost his theories in the House of Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

Regan, toward the end of the morning, got to talking a little less himself, that is, aloud—inwardly he grew more eloquent than ever, cholerically so.

From The Night Operator by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)

"Batter my plates!" says the commodore, cholerically, "I could capture that poor cuss easily, if I only had a proper pilot."

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

"By Chivalry!" says Captain Munchausen, cholerically; "I swear, I never told a single lie in all my life."

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

"Otherwise," says he, cholerically, "future reconciliation and reconstruction will be impossible."

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)