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
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
Captain Barton was observed to be unusually absent and out of spirits for several days afterwards? but no one divined the cause.
From In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Who can feel out of spirits in that brisk mountain atmosphere?
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
