lose spirit

Although Timmendiquas, Moluntha, Captain Pipe and others raged up and down, the warriors began to lose spirit.

From The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Voices Now Una, nobody knew why, began to lose spirit, and to grow pale.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

After this the enemies began to lose spirit, and the friendly natives to take heart, and to hold us in greater esteem.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Though they had neither commencement, class day, nor play, the freshmen and sophomores did not lose spirit.

From Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life by Adele W. Jones

And thus we are led, in another way, to lose spirit in matter.

From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas Henry Huxley