BILIOUS in a Sentence

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He looked suspiciously at us now out of yellow-shot, bilious eyes, and, without speaking or rising, he waved towards two chairs.

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 Meanings and Examples of BILIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bilious
 a.  suffering from indigestion; appearing as if affected by disorder; sickly
Classic Sentence:
1  He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Miss Sarah," said Joe, "she have twenty-five pound perannium fur to buy pills, on account of being bilious.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
3  It was a row of one-story shops covered with galvanized iron, or with clapboards painted red and bilious yellow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  He looked suspiciously at us now out of yellow-shot, bilious eyes, and, without speaking or rising, he waved towards two chairs.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
5  Madame Odintsov looked at him twice, not stealthily, but straight in the face, which was bilious and forbidding, with downcast eyes, and contemptuous determination stamped on every feature, and thought: 'No.'
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  This excess of bilious humor could not be attributed to play; for unlike Porthos, who accompanied the variations of chance with songs or oaths, Athos when he won remained as unmoved as when he lost.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
7  When Dr. Meade told her she was pregnant, she was astounded, for she had been expecting a diagnosis of biliousness and over-wrought nerves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
Example Sentence:
1  The bilious is indicated by a thin, spare face, dark skin, black hair, firm flesh, moderate stoutness, with rough, harsh, and strongly marked features.
2  She is suffering a bilious attack.