low-spirited
Example Sentences
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Patients are low-spirited and very apprehensive of death.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Some time after, when it stormed very hard, and the young lady upstairs was cold and low-spirited, my mistress invited her down and entertained us with more of Tom's history.
From Daisy the autobiography of a cat by Swan, Miranda Eliot
But next day when she comes down stairs she acts dauncy and low-spirited for awhile.
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
The man who would not forbid these interviews, would be considered a low-spirited wretch, unworthy the society of all honorable men.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
If not wretched already, for all was wretched at home: Hester was low-spirited; for his own part, he rarely spoke; and the Cuban avoided him.
From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by Fenn, George Manville
