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

Our young gentleman acknowledged, as I have already said, that he was out of spirits, and in the very act of acknowledging it he contemned himself because of it.

From A Man of Honor by Eggleston, George Cary

There, pale and exhausted and entirely out of spirits, Graham turned quickly on his brother.

From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo

Tennyson was sitting in a chair with his leg up, evidently ill and out of spirits.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various