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Low spirits

noun

A state of mild depression.

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"Low spirits" Quotes from Famous Books

... me that he made this remark, not so much to impress me, as with a view of elevating his own low spirits, ...

— The Beetle - A Mystery • Richard Marsh

... do you?" she said. "Dick Crawford, if I was not a little ashamed of you for allowing yourself to have these fits of low spirits, I would tell you something to prove how 'brave' I am! Well, I will tell you, because I know that it is exceedingly improper and I ought not to do so. Two or three weeks ago, spending an evening at Mrs. R——'s, her daughters showed me a suit of clothes ...

— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

... Beck! It was 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 ...

— The Young Musician - or, Fighting His Way • Horatio Alger

... were trained not to chatter when there was company at table, besides Mysie and Val were in low spirits about the chance of the blackberry cookery. Miss Hacket sat on one side of Lady Merrifield, and talked about what associates had answered her letters, and what villages would send contingents of girls, and it sounded very dull to the young people. Miss ...

— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge

... is the day, I am well-nigh overcome with thirst and weariness. I am too thirsty to eat, and, miserably tired and disgusted, one gets an instructive lesson in the control of the mind over the body. Much of my fatigue comes of low spirits, born of disappointment at ...

— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens

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