phlegmatic
Definition: Not easily roused to feeling or action; sluggish
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Dracula - By Bram Stoker, Philip M. Parker, Poul Glargaard
...Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all thing 's, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has to stake ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...of curiosity which a close observer would have been astonished at discovering in his phlegmatic countenance . "...
Of Human Bondage - By William Somerset Maugham
...No sign of astonishment appeared on Emil 's phlegmatic face ....
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...For my own part, I was; a phlegmatic islander, and sitting in an oven did not agree...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - By Anne Bront
...Not I, indeed 1 ' was the phlegmatic reply; and my appearance prevented further discussion . '...
Adam Bede - By George Eliot, Laura Johnson Wylie
...If Gyp had had a tail he would doubtless have wagged it, but being destitute of that ` vehicle for emotions, he was like many other worthy personages, destined to appear more phlegmatic than nature had made him ....
The Song of the Lark - By Willa Cather, Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press
...That system 's well enough for phlegmatic singers; it only drains me ....
One of Ours - By Willa Cather
...Although this evidence had been pawed over by so many hands since the fifteenth century, by the phlegmatic and the fiery, by rhapsodists and cynics, he felt sure that Wheeler would not dismiss the case lightly ....
The Way We Live Now - By Anthony Trollope
...Reasonable hesitation at such a moment is dull and phlegmatic ....
The Black Tulip - By Alexandre Dumas
...One of them -LRB- and he bore the character of a profound observer -RRB- maintained that this young man, so phlegmatic in appearance, might well be a very dangerous subject in reality, for beneath his cloak of impassibility he was very likely to conceal an ardent desire to revenge his friends the De Witts ....
Essays - By Ralph Waldo Emerson
...They seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with...
The Road - By Jack London
...He was a large man, broad-shouldered and heavy-muscled; and his face was lazy, phlegmatic, slothful, withal kindly, yet without passion, and quite soulless--a dim soul, unmalicious, unmoral, bovine, and...
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - By William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope
...Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view; `` These youthful follies, like the fermentation of liquors, often disturb the mind only in order to its future refinement : a life spent in phlegmatic apathy resembles those liquors which never ferment, and are consequently always muddy . "...
The Prime Minister - By Anthony Trollope
...But in a dull, phlegmatic way, they who ate the ices and drank the champagne were true to her ....
The Financier - By Theodore Dreiser, Harper & Brothers
...Mrs. Cowperwood, phlegmatic and now thin, was still not homely ....