sanguineness

Example Sentences

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But it is the next interest rate decision on 9 May that may explain Mr Sunak's sanguineness.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called.

From Time Magazine Archive

I went, wrath and horror struggling in my heart with the sanguineness of woman.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Their disappointment at the ultimate failure of the book was proportioned, we may suppose, to the sanguineness of their first expectations.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas

One man had died, perhaps half-a-dozen more were invalids, but the rest were strong and hearty: to be sure, we all lacked much of that sanguineness which had animated us hitherto.

From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Osborn, Sherard