out of spirits

Example Sentences

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“You seem out of spirits today, Lady Kaltain.”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

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

Lady Besford encouraged me; and I was prevailed on to go, though very much out of spirits.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

At last, after we had become utterly depressed and out of spirits, there was a little stir and the great doors at the side of the ballroom were thrown open.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise

You look tired and out of spirits, Madeleine.

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte