The low-spirited widow spent the rest of her life wishing her husband were still alive. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : He is feeling rather low-spirited today. From Dictionary.com.
He was low-spirited, depressed, his health broke down a little. From Wordnik.com. [The Jew and other stories] Reference
He got ready in silence and walked off, sullen and low-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
Schomberg; she seems low-spirited, and says she is often very lonely. From Wordnik.com. [Emilie the Peacemaker] Reference
The young man had seemed low-spirited but had counted the notes twice. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
"Oh! my eye!" he said, looking very low-spirited, "I am sorry for that.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
I was coming back as, the sun began to set, feeling tired and low-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
When he arrived, Frank was low-spirited and moody, but very glad to see me. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I had been low-spirited all day, had tried reading, work, -- all of no avail. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The cab-driver is low-spirited, and has a solemn sense of his responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
All the chiefs were so low-spirited that great efforts were made to cheer them. From Wordnik.com. [Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola] Reference
But my Lord continues so weak and low-spirited, that there is no getting from him. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [Alice in Wonderland] Reference
Miss Byron is in a good way, I hope, interrupted she, but very weak and low-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
“I am not quite sure what my nervous system is, but I was dreadfully low-spirited.”. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
"My dear Cissy, I detest looking at people being married; it always makes me low-spirited.". From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
Alice asked, hoping to cheer him up, for the poor Knight seemed quite low-spirited about it. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Looking Glass] Reference
We were miserable and low-spirited enough ourselves at the idea of going away all in a hurry. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
Destitute of the means of subsistence, worn down with fatigue, and low-spirited by misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
I had a letter from Mrs. Shaw, who thought I looked low-spirited at the opera the other night. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
I am quite ashamed of myself for thinking only of grandfather: and it makes me so low-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
Do, my dear good Miss, vouchsafe to the poor soul the honour of a visit: she may be low-spirited. —. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Lionel, concluding himself the cause, begged her not to be low-spirited, but to write the letter at once. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
The Reverend Mr. Fairweather had been dyspeptic and low-spirited of late, and was too languid for controversy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Come, dear Risby, pluck up, said Mr. Powis: -- do not you, my friend, be the only low-spirited person amongst us. From Wordnik.com. [Barford Abbey] Reference
Forester, at once solitary and sensitive, low-spirited, and devoid of strength of mind, whether natural or acquired. From Wordnik.com. [My Aunt Margaret's Mirror] Reference
He received his visitor cordially, and in his anxiety not to seem low-spirited was a little more boisterous than common. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
I was in momentary dread of seeing Clara arrive, (for all the world was to be there,) and felt nervous and low-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
I was at the time weak in body and low-spirited, and my debility was increased by the extraordinary heat of the weather. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Whenever I reached home from school I would find every one low-spirited, and my mother shedding silent tears, and my father raging. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
But the weather was again very stormy, and the Esquimaux could not quit the snow-house, which made them very low-spirited and melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [The Moravians in Labrador] Reference
I would be sorry to think that I had, even unintentionally, spoiled your life; but you will not feel so low-spirited when you get stronger. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces] Reference
No wonder you feel low-spirited, lying in that room all day. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
There is so much sawdust in everything -- No, I'm not low-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
He is very low-spirited, and yet thinks himself much better to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
Usually the thought of the days before me made me restless and low-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [The White People] Reference
Do not think it is pain that makes me give this low-spirited air to my letter. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
"I was low-spirited this morning, Katy," said Mrs. Redburn, when the physician had gone. From Wordnik.com. [Poor and Proud, or the Fortunes of Katy Redburn: a Story for Young Folks] Reference
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