out of spirits
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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
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
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 Georgiana Cavendish
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 George Cary Eggleston
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