"In high spirits" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... You talk of your saying good things; I said one of the best things last week that ever any man said in all the world. It was what you call your rappartees, your bobinates. I'll tell you what it was: You must know, I was in high spirits, faith, so I stole a dog from a blind man, for I do love fun! so then the blind man cried for his dog, and that made me laugh; so says I to the blind man, 'Hip, master, do you want your dog?' 'Yes, sir,' ...
— A Lecture On Heads • Geo. Alex. Stevens
... meet his father at Malta?" He was feverish and eager to go; and his two friends strongly counselled him to take the journey. In the midst of our talk Miss Ethel came among us. She arrived flushed and in high spirits; she rallied Clive upon his gloomy looks; she turned rather pale, as it seemed to us, when she heard the news. Then she coldly told him she thought the voyage must be a pleasant one, and would do him good: it was pleasanter than that journey she was going to take herself ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... thing for self-satisfaction to get an opinion without telling the whole of the facts of the case, and Gillian went home in high spirits, considerably encumbered with parcels, and surprising Mrs. Mount by insisting that two separate packages should be made of ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge
... off, in high spirits. He reached Covent Garden at half-past ten, and there the poor fellow was sucked ...
— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade
... the deceased, Ootooguak, with her husband and son, came to visit me. She had first gone to the Fury, and was laughing on deck, and, at her own request, was taken below, not caring to hurry herself to come to the house of mourning. Even when she came to the Hecla she was in high spirits, laughing and capering on deck as if nothing had happened; but, on being shown to my cabin, where Shega, having heard of her arrival, was sitting crying in readiness, she began with her niece to howl most wofully. I, however, put a stop to this ceremony, for such it certainly ...
— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry
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