low-spirited

Example Sentences

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My Fuegian captive, whom I named 'Boat Memory,' seemed frightened, but not low-spirited; he eat enormously, and soon fell fast asleep.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert

I was very tired and low-spirited, and, after looking about the town a little while, I went to the inn where I had put up and went to bed. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.

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)

He was a capital companion and never once showed that he was low-spirited or suffered in the least.”

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville