1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 146,
From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing for ever.

How angry the poor devil is! In fine, thou art as choleric as a cook by a fireside.

I now proceed to enumerate those lesions and morbid changes found in the bodies of those cut off by cholera, which must have preceded the appearance of the disease, and which, existing, as they did, in very different organs, had no connection with the choleric symptoms, but nevertheless rendered the chance of recovery much less likely.

The cholerics show ambition, stubbornness, love of work, courage […]

1984, Tim LaHaye, Your Temperament: Discover its Potential, republished as Why You Act the Way You Do, Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House, 2012,
No one utters more caustic comments than a sarcastic choleric!

Persons laboring under pulmonary affections appear to be less liable than others, though I have found softened tubercles in some cholerics.

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