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Definition of Biliously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biliously
Literary usage of Biliously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the by Richard Hakluyt (1904)
"... biliously boasting, as though the sayd Isle had bene under his jurisdiction.
A testimonie of the sending of ..."
2. An Essay on the Influence of Temperament in Modifying Dyspepsia, Or Indigeston by Thomas Mayo (1831)
"On the other hand, the inconveniences which indigestion produces to the phlegmatic
and the sanguine, are far milder than those occurring to the biliously ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... for equestrian per- FOR many weeks past, ко where I will, I have been unable
to escape from a variety of highly and biliously coloured advertisement- ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"Established for the most part by the Empress Catherine, they have devoted themselves
unam biliously and consistently to the immediate concerns of their ..."
5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1894)
"Sometimes the meeting occurred twice during the stupid march-out, when it became
so nearly vexatious to boys almost biliously oppressed by the tedium of a ..."
6. The French Revolution by Louis Madelin (1916)
"Now being as he was—and this is the most odious feature of his character, "
biliously jealous " of all who gave him umbrage, he was constantly adding to the ..."
7. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1818)
"(* power and the raw unexperienced youths amongst you am- " biliously pursue ;
ends incompatible with the welfare of a " great and flourishing State. ..."
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