"Sometimes I am so low-spirited," wrote the Saint, "by business and events, that I do not know where to turn nor at what end to begin: but during the Office nothing annoys me, I have not even distractions, I imagine that I am in heaven singing with the angels the praises of my Creator; and on leaving the choir I find often that the mighty problems which had given me trouble are cleared away and, solved in an Instant."

She is very weak and low-spirited now, I was much pleased with your continuation of the "Essay on Epitaphs," It is the only sensible thing which has been written on that subject, and it goes to the bottom.

But Dotty was too low-spirited even to smile.

He was obviously uneasy, low-spirited and reserved, said he had already been a fortnight in Devonshire stopping with some friends at Plymouth, and, after a week's stay with the Dashwoods, left them, in spite of their wishes and his own, and without any restraint on his time.

There were other things to make Mike low-spirited that morning.

For some reason Rachel did not seem as low-spirited as usual that evening.

We then returned again to our cave for the night, all much exhausted and low-spirited.

" Henery Walker was too low-spirited to answer 'im; and arter Smith 'ad said "Hush!" to George Kettle three times, he up and put 'im outside for the sake of the 'ouse.

I must own I got out of the train at Muddlehampstead and into the station fly feeling distinctly low-spirited.

Karr found Grayskin, but the elk was so low-spirited that he scarcely greeted the dog.

If you are low-spirited, drink oxygen.

I have been extremely low-spirited for some days past, and it still continues.

Clare had been run down and low-spirited, and the doctor had suggested a change of scene.

Happily, too, most of the boys came back low-spirited, and were not as boisterous at my expense as I expected.

The sight of them, especially of the one who had no room at all, made me quite low-spirited. Wednesday.

Lavinia Dorman writes that she is feeling tired and low-spirited, the doctor has advised a tonic, and she misses the change of planting her back-yard garden.

She thought of one wild extravagant scheme after the other, and abandoned them all, and at last, utterly crushed and low-spirited, she took her way back to Carver House.

She was a constant sufferer, was nervous, excitable and low-spirited.

It was past nine when a hansom drove him into Coleman-street, a dull unfrequented-looking thoroughfare between Tottenham-court-road and Gower-street, overshadowed a little by the adjacent gloom of the University Hospital, and altogether a low-spirited street.

"I," added she, with a gentle smile, "I was too proud, I had been spoiled, and was probably too deeply impressed with a sense of my own worth; and this defect is not conducive to pleasant relations with one who is distrustful and low-spirited.

Do not think it is pain that makes me give this low-spirited air to my letter.

"For all that, I sot in Jim Holt's place of a Tuesday afternoon feelin' low-spirited when I looked at the heap, when who comes sailin' in at the door but Tartar Charlie, wearin' a grin that took two turns and a half around his face.

On the evening of the second day he became low-spirited, and going down to the kitchen took a glass from the dresser and sat down by the beer-cask.

I bought crackers and dried beef for ten cents in the morning and made my first meal since the day before, felt pretty low-spirited.

But to behold so great a genius, so deepened with melancholy, stooping with infirmity of body, feeling the anguish of a lacerated mind, and sinking to the grave under accumulated miseryto see all this in a character I venerate, and apparently without resource or comfort, wounded every feeling of my soul, and I left him the next day almost as low-spirited as himself.'