be in low spirits

Holding a council of war, we were in low spirits.

After a concert, some people saw that the musician was in low spirits.

Philip was in low spirits because he still hadn't received any new letters from Anne.

Calligraphy was her great comfort when she was in low spirits.

On the twenty-third, Jim was in low spirits.

Stepan Arkadyich was in low spirits, which rarely happened to him, and could not fall asleep for a long time.

You've been in low spirits this afternoon.

"My daughter is in low spirits tonight."

"She is in low spirits, her illness has left her languid and out of sorts.

The girl was in low spirits.

We ' are in low spirits.

He then went to Liverpool, and was in low spirits, bewailing the death of his wife and that of a favourite son.

"My lady had been in low spirits for some time and she was weeping when she went to bed <P 1023> that night.

I thought of answering your letter sooner, but I didn't feel like picking up my pen because I have been in low spirits.

When he is in low spirits he writes down-hill and repeats words - these little indications being expressive of the perturbation of his mind.

'Oh, you are in low spirits, Mr. Micawber,' said Traddles. '

"It was evident that Lord Kingsley was in low spirits this evening, Rachel, no matter how politely he tried to conceal it.

On his arrival at Leipzig in the autumn of 1865, with a largely wasted year behind him and no fixed bearings for the future, he was in low spirits.

Morris wrote to a friend: "I am in low spirits about the prospects of our party, if I can dignify a little knot of men by such a word.

Tom Poole, who had nursed his father devotedly at the end, was in low spirits, but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting.

All my pleasures will be solitary, even when I happen to be in company; I shall not be exhilarated simply because the people around me are enjoying themselves, nor depressed because they are in low spirits.

"Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its object might be I could not imagine.

According to Hunt, the climbing team had been in low spirits before Noyce and Annullu reached the South Col, but the effect of their safe return from the Col to Camp VII "had a profound impression on the waiting men.

At the end of August 1797 Coleridge was in low spirits and unwell, worn down by the 'Malignity of the Aristocrats', who had brought the spy to Stowey, by the need to disappoint John Thelwall's hopes of a Somerset home, and by poverty.