Meanings of phlegmatic nature in English

Even his hard and phlegmatic nature was shaken to the depths.

Matt's eyes were beginning to sparkle, though sombrely, as his phlegmatic nature woke up.

There was something intoxicating to Robin Drummond's somewhat phlegmatic nature in their being together after this friendly fashion.

They are more lively in their disposition than the Prussians, Saxons and Bavarians, who are of a heavy and phlegmatic nature.

He was of a reticent and partly phlegmatic nature; though he looked so like his father, he resembled him little in temperament.

Amos Burr scowled heavily upon the boy's head, his phlegmatic nature goaded into resentment by his wife's ill-temper and the lamentations of Jubal.

He was passionless even in relations which usually arouse warmth in the most phlegmatic natures.

Between her and her husband there is as much mutual attachment as can reasonably be expected in phlegmatic natures after half a century of matrimony.