low in spirits

Example Sentences

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Husseini could sense that his brother was low in spirits, but then again, so was nearly everyone.

From Time • Oct. 6, 2016

When he's a little low in spirits, he reads his well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up."

From Time Magazine Archive

I am weary to-night and low in spirits.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

I am very poorly, and very low in spirits; my wife grows weaker every day, and our anxieties are great.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund

Basil Gregory, warmed and comfortable as he was in body, felt very low in spirits.

From Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger