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Phlegm
"Phlegm" in a Sentence (12 examples)
I have a lot of phlegm.
My phlegm has blood in it.
He's got some very British phlegm.
Almost all the phlegm was removed by coughing alone.
I can't cough up the phlegm because it's too deep in my bronchi.
What color was the phlegm that you coughed up?
According to Galen, the four elements of Aristotelian science—fire, water, air, and earth—comprised the four major humors of the human body: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
Each person's unique mixture of these substances determines his temperament: a predominance of blood gives a sanguine temperament; a predominance of phlegm makes one phlegmatic; yellow bile, bilious (or choleric); and black bile, melancholic.
Even some members of the new bourgeoisie indulge in conspicuously boorish behavior, like hawking phlegm onto the pavement or picking their noses at business meetings.
The attempts made to analyse vegetable substances previous to 1720, merely produced their resolution into the supposed elements of the chemists of those days, namely, salts, Earths, phlegm, and sulphur.
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Orloff's phlegm broke completely, and he snatched at the monocle as it dropped[.]
But Swedish Nazis also talked of the necessity of saving Sweden from Bolshevism, and with the menacing Berlin radio gnawing in their ears many Swedes lost their Scandinavian phlegm.
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