Other overcoats look spiritless, only this coat astrut.thin black pashm with pliability and puff, this double fastener coat hasn't put on, looks save many years in the flat tour box of Heny's.
He wondered what the tired, spiritless mother thought of them, and whether in her moments of uttermost cynicism she ever guessed at their relationship.
When he had alighted and passed, with the heavy, spiritless tread of weary and heart-sick old age, into the house, Gemma turned away and walked slowly to the bridge.
Now he looked wan and spiritless, and the traces of tears were still about his eyelids; but the words: " to be shot, " did not seem to affect him much.
Several months elapsed before I was able to quit my bed; and when at length I was moved to a Sopha, I was so faint, spiritless, and emaciated, that I could not cross the room without assistance.
'I know nought of your ways down South. I have heerd they're a pack of spiritless, down-trodden men; welly clemmed to death; too much dazed wi' clemming to know when they're put upon. Now, it's not so here.