Below the hat was a lean, long, sallow face, deeply pitted with the smallpox, and characterized, very remarkably, by eyes of two different colors -- one
bilious green, one
bilious brown, both sharply intelligent.
It was only because I was
bilious. I lead a sedentary life.
Naseby appeared, with stooping shoulders and a heavy,
bilious countenance, languidly rising to the trot.
"He is a nervous,
bilious subject," said Larrey, "and will not recover."
Wrench was a small, neat,
bilious man, with a well-dressed wig: he had a laborious practice, an irascible temper, a lymphatic wife and seven children; and he was already rather late before setting out on a four-miles drive to meet Dr.
Wanton avidity,
bilious envy, careworn revenge, populace-pride: all these struck mine eye.
Think, think of the fevers, yellow and
bilious! Beware of the horrible plague!
He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him
bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
Refinement he did not affect, yet vulgar he could not be called; he was not odd--no quiz--yet he resembled no one else I had ever seen before; his general bearing intimated complete, sovereign satisfaction with himself; yet, at times, an indescribable shade passed like an eclipse over his countenance, and seemed to me like the sign of a sudden and strong inward doubt of himself, his words and actions-an energetic discontent at his life or his social position, his future prospects or his mental attainments--I know not which; perhaps after all it might only be a
bilious caprice.
But don't think I'm
bilious, for I was never in better health in my life," replied the old gentleman.
"One would think you were sick, or
bilious, or something.
He had been
bilious, but rich men were often
bilious, and therefore he had been persuading himself that he was a man of property.