Word: biliously
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Trigger-nerved, bilious, plagued with insomnia, Carlyle found a captivated as well as a captive audience in wife Jane, who shared all of his symptoms and capped them with migraine headaches of her own. Many a letter finds Carlyle with his ear cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved...
...changes were amazing. Flaking away five layers of paint applied "by restorers since the 16th century, the professor found that St. Bartholomew's sleeve, before a dark, bilious green, was indeed a dark azure blue. That was just the beginning. On Judas' blue tunic, ancient Arabic lettering appeared in gold; Christ's robe changed from a dirty lime color to vermilion, his mantle became bluer, its folds draped more gracefully. The dingy tablecloth lost its tattletale grey, and in the background, the blue waters of a cool lake took shape...
...Fancy Dress Party is set in "a certain country on the other side of the ocean," but in its brutal swagger and decadent morals it clearly recalls Mussolini's Italy. General Tereso Arango, its aging and bilious dictator, has always been fearless in battle and seldom troubled by scruples in handling political enemies. He has only one touch of frailty: let a lovely woman flutter her lashes and he caves in like a moonstruck schoolboy...
...made of quite different stuff. His description of his native capital, Edinburgh, more or less expressed his views on life and people generally: "Putrid, scandalous, decadent, hypocritical." While his wife lay stunned by headaches, he groaned and paced the floor in an ecstasy of dyspepsia. "None can say how bilious I am and am like to be," he chanted triumphantly. When somebody suggested that "the first essential was the happiness of the people," Carlyle went half mad with rage and was found bellowing: "Happiness! Happiness! the fools ought to be chained...
...looked like something on a Saturday Evening Post cover. The Patriots Day parade, a mixture of blacks, bilious yellows, powder blues, and browns, wound past Littauer Auditorium, up Garden street, and marched onto the Cambridge Common's baseball field. There, the town fathers had set up a stage at home plate, and there the parade spread out to form a phalanx-the American Legionnaires taking up positions in left field...