out of spirits
Example Sentences
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Lady Catherine observed, after dinner, that Miss Bennet seemed out of spirits, and immediately accounting for it herself, by supposing that she did not like to go home again so soon, she added:
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
“You seem out of spirits today, Lady Kaltain.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Tennyson was sitting in a chair with his leg up, evidently ill and out of spirits.
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
She did not expect me, and was sitting in a corner, angry and out of spirits.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
In very marked contrast with this happy man was Richard Arden, who talked but little, was absent, utterly out of spirits, and smiled with a palpable effort when he did smile.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
