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We must even acknowledge that the little Queen-bee fell into a few excesses, such as jumping over ditches where they were the broadest, and clapping her hands and shouting to frighten away phlegmatical crows.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

You learn it now quite time enough," replied the doctor in his phlegmatical humour; "yes, indeed, the vagabond is returned after many years, he has had some experience, the hair-brained fellow.

From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. by Tieck, Ludwig