"In low spirits" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... than to confess to being in low spirits," said Missy. "I never do it, and therefore am always ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... matter all day, and by evening I was in low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the whole affair might be some great hoax or fraud, though what its object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past belief that any one could make such a will, or that they would pay such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various
... and sing a 'pont neuf',—[a ballad]—or cut a caper, to la Marechale de Coigny, the Pope's nuncio, or Abbe Sallier, or to any person of natural gravity and melancholy, or who at that time should be in grief? I believe not; as, on the other hand, I suppose, that if you were in low spirits or real grief, you would not choose to bewail your situation with 'la petite Blot'. If you cannot command your present humor and disposition, single out those to converse with, who happen to be in the humor ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... mentioned that we did not fail to meet with the moist and oppressive weather found under the belt of calms under the equator. Frequently I felt as if I could scarcely breathe, and nearly everybody was in low spirits and ready to grumble. Jerry and I vowed that the air was abominable. Cousin Silas ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston
... must not think of such things. You will send Keith away in low spirits, if you have not a bright face and a smile for him ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... joke!" said Dickenson. "Very bad one, but it's better than going into the dumps. As I was about to say, we've got trouble enough without your playing at being in low spirits." ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... tired, Cobbs: but she is not used to be away from home, and she has been in low spirits again. Cobbs, do you think you could ...
— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various
... age to his belief in God and living a sane life. Whenever he feels bad or in low spirits, a drink of coffee or a small amount of whisky is enough to brace him. He believes that his remedy is better than that used in slavery which consisted mainly of pills and ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 4 • Works Projects Administration
... way. I am expected to be something more than mortal. Everyone else is encouraged to complain, and to be weak and silly. But I must have no feeling. I must be always in the right. Everyone else may be home-sick, or huffed, or in low spirits. I must have no nerves, and must keep others laughing all day long. Everyone else may sulk when a word of reproach is addressed to them, and may make the professors afraid to find fault with them. ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... heavy flaky dust, which made us feel very thankful when our route branched off from the high road. Liotir was strong in mulberry trees and vines, for he was a keeper of silkworms, and a wine-merchant. Silkworms had not been profitable for a year or two, and he was almost in low spirits when he talked of them.[94] An epidemic had visited the district, and the worms ate voraciously and refused to spin—a disease which he believed to be beyond the power of medicine.[95] As is so often the case with the Frenchman, ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne
... the morning came and I set off—though I had a good breakfast inside of me, and such a store of food by me as fairly would have set me dancing with delight only a week before—I was in low spirits and went at my work rather because I was resolved to push through with it than because I had any strong hope that it would ...
— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier
... of distress. I desire to be surrounded only by healthy, vigorous plants and trees, which require constant cutting-in and management. Merely to cut away dead branches is like perpetual attendance at a funeral, and puts one in low spirits. I want to have a garden and orchard rise up and meet me every morning, with the request to "lay on, Macduff." I respect old age; but an old currant-bush, hoary with mossy bark, is ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... not that anything very serious is the matter with him; but he has a cold, and is in low spirits. ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan
... met Belloc he remarked to the friend who introduced us that he was in low spirits. His low spirits were and are much more uproarious and enlivening than anybody else's high spirits. He talked into the night; and left behind in it a glowing track of good things. When I have said that I mean things that ...
— Hilaire Belloc - The Man and His Work • C. Creighton Mandell
... down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish^, dumpish, mopish^, moping; moody, glum; sulky &c (discontented) 832; out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary &c 841; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen^, chopfallen^, jaw fallen, crest fallen. sad, pensive, penseroso [It], tristful^; dolesome^, doleful; woebegone; lacrymose, lachrymose, in ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... fortunate he was unable to hear these comparisons made. He could not brook a rival near the throne, and had gone home in low spirits, feeling that he could never again hold his head as high as ...
— The Young Musician - or, Fighting His Way • Horatio Alger
... than that, and at last, before a couple of months had passed away, our farewells were said and we started for Liverpool, in low spirits with our partings, but full of hope and eager ambition, since at the great western port we were to take our passage in one of the great steamers for the West Indies, where we would have to change into a smaller trading vessel which would ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
... anxious—but there is nothing to be anxious about. How could there ever be anything wrong with our child—in body or soul? Of course we must expect more troubles yet—but that has nothing to do with the child! I know you were in low spirits then, but body and soul were sound enough. And I feel so well and strong and happy now myself that it must be passed on to him—even if he were a stone! And then I am all overflowing with love for you and confidence in the future. ...
— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski |
