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spiritless

How to use spiritless in a sentence

He thinks it spiritless to accumulate slowly by the sweat of his brow which can be got quickly by a loss of a little blood.

These things sent us home sad and spiritless, notwithstanding the agreeable scenes we had been riding among.

Cash got up and went to the doorway, looking out over Bud's shoulder at the spiritless donkeys trailing in to water.

I used to think them spiritless, they were so different to any children I had ever seen.

EMILY BRONTA. MARY F. (AGNES MARY FRANCES) ROBINSON

To the new-comer they looked pasty-faced, spiritless beings.

QUEENSLAND COUSINSELEANOR LUISA HAVERFIELD

In these respects they are infinitely superior to the timid, spiritless men.

A sputter of rifles would break out now and then, followed perhaps by a spiritless hurrah.

Crushed and spiritless as she was, there was comfort for her in the broken, incoherent utterances of the old negro.

THE BROKEN SWORDDENNISON WORTHINGTON

The great vessel had lost all its pride and dignity, and seemed a poor, reeling, spiritless thing.

These were the only physically degraded-looking people we saw on the trip; small of stature, feeble-looking and spiritless.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985