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More "Down in the mouth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... affected our retainers considerably more than it did ourselves. The Q.M.G. in particular, not having entirely recovered his health, and being low in the article of tobacco, still believed himself to be dying, and was most unusually low-spirited and down in the mouth. As it threatened rain, we pitched our camp close to an old serai, in order to allow our servants to ensconce themselves under a roof, and to derive the full benefit of their wood fire, which they lost no time ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... the most wonderful change in this college. I rather think it is seeing what St. Ambrose's is now, and thinking what it was in my time, and what an uncommon member of society I should have turned out if I had had the luck to have been here now instead of then, that makes me down in the mouth—more even than having to pull in the torpid instead ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... lot of time over that just now; they're both as keen as mustard. Nearly as keen as he is. He sets people on fire. It's very good for the children. They're bringing him up here to spend Sunday. I think he hopes every time to find Nan back again from Cornwall, poor Barry. He was very down in the mouth when ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay
... down in the mouth,—terribly down in the mouth. Till it was all settled, I did not know how much I should feel Marie's going. Of course it had to be, but it makes an old man of me. There will be nothing left. Of course there's ...
— The Golden Lion of Granpere • Anthony Trollope
... getting down in the mouth again. Don't you get thinking that. But even if you did, we'd make ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn
... strode away from the cave and left the blind giant groaning and raging with pain. Groping with his hands, he found the great stone that blocked the door, lifted it away, and sat himself down in the mouth of the cave, with his arms stretched out, hoping to catch Odysseus and his men if they should try to escape. Sitting there, he fell asleep, and, as soon as he slept, Odysseus planned and plotted how ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various
... least, not much." Abe finished his piece, down to the last crumb. "If I seem down in the mouth, Sally, ...
— Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance • Frances Cavanah
... sublime, etc., sovereign, sulks. Consequently the family looks glum, down in the mouth, utterly unhappy. ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
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