He will be a poor-spirited horse that does not resent it. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
'Having lost all, are you now too poor-spirited to confess?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It would have been a poor-spirited company if there had been none. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
"For my part, I think he was a poor-spirited man, if not a coward.". From Wordnik.com. [The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773] Reference
Kilmarnock was a poor-spirited fellow compared with Emmet; and though there were many better men than. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
It is a foolish poor-spirited weakness — as though my heart has been only half formed in the making. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
I never paid any attention to what she said, though " and she was a poor-spirited creature " always gave in. From Wordnik.com. [4.50 From Paddington]
"What a poor-spirited family we have become," Lady Hope was complaining the following morning at the breakfast table. From Wordnik.com. [Ungrateful Governess]
Majesty removed her troops -- the Dominion wouldn't pay, a poor-spirited business -- and a bulwark went with the regiment. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
Master Blifil was generally called a sneaking rascal, a poor-spirited wretch, with other epithets of the like kind; whilst. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
The clergy and the crowd must have been rather ashamed of themselves in secret, I think, for being such poor-spirited knaves. From Wordnik.com. [A Child's History of England] Reference
I would let them go, and help them back; I could not take such poor-spirited miserable creatures with me, and I would keep the. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Tibetans] Reference
"Rather a poor-spirited attitude, don't you think?". From Wordnik.com. [The Independence of Claire] Reference
English young towards the poor-spirited or cowardly. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
"I'm such a poor-spirited creature," remarked Eloise. From Wordnik.com. [Jewel] Reference
But the poor-spirited Woodhouse people were weak buyers. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
To his mind any display of appreciation was poor-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [Three Little Cousins] Reference
Don't you be afraid, and don't show yourself poor-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [The Giant's Robe] Reference
You are my only relative, and I should be a very poor-spirited. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall Between] Reference
I suppose I'm a poor-spirited creature, but that is how I feel. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of the Island] Reference
Wouldn't trust, but they'll think me a poor-spirited cur, anyway. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
King Robert III was a feeble, sickly, and poor-spirited king, and he had. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference
No matter how poor-spirited she seemed, if only she could move his sympathies. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
Such sentiments might have been very well in the mouth of a poor-spirited cowardly. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
One of those poor-spirited creatures that can be content with the aftermath of love. From Wordnik.com. [Three Comedies] Reference
It will make her a tyrant and you a poor-spirited creature of no account in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference
She thought it dull and poor-spirited not to accept, and manage the distillery just as he pleased. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
But repressed vexation at his son's poor-spirited behavior found expression in his treatment of his daughter. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
But he went quite quick enough for Margaret, a poor-spirited creature, who had chickens and children on the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Howards End] Reference
I am very much obliged to you for thinking me so poor-spirited a creature; but I hope to convince you to the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great] Reference
"You mean I'm a poor-spirited, weak thing, who'd better never try to take a step of my own," she said with a sorry smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference
"A set of poor-spirited rogues," returned Jeph contemptuously, as he nevertheless sauntered on so as to watch them down the lane. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Storm] Reference
But the lackeys M. le Vicomte had left with us, the times being peaceful and the neighbours friendly, were poor-spirited fellows. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolf; a romance] Reference
How can a man be so poor-spirited as to let his wife have absolute power over him, and never dare to oppose anything she has resolved upon?. From Wordnik.com. [The Learned Women] Reference
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