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
"My poor sister is a bit out of spirits this evening," said Barrington, who merely saw a certain show of constraint over his company, and never guessed the cause.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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 Clara Louise Kellogg
I remember calling one morning, and finding her much out of spirits.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
