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Meanings of high spirits in English
Synonyms
Examples for "lightness"
Examples for "lightness"
1
Sometimes too much lightness: The young boys' mourning never really is addressed.
2
Having cast away the stone, she feels a new sense of lightness.
3
You grasp it; it comes away in your hands with startling lightness.
4
This will remove the acidity, and rather improve the bread in lightness.
5
I felt the sudden lightness: I gripped the window casement and clung.
1
We all have our particular mode of self-expression in moments of elation.
2
The elation we had felt earlier in the day was all gone.
3
Dann's first few sober years were a time of elation, she says.
4
Or do they want to share the elation of the United players?
5
They were told me by the taxidermist in a mood of elation.
Usage of high spirits in English
1
The men were in high spirits; they talked very loudly and laughed.
2
He was in exceeding high spirits and in the utmost good humour.
3
Archie was alone, buried in the bush, yet was in high spirits.
4
The stock was in splendid condition, and we were in high spirits.
5
Our island friends were now in high spirits; all courage and alacrity.
6
The passengers were, consequently, in high spirits and disposed to be social.
7
At the alarm-post next morning the men were in high spirits again.
8
Across the room, a party of office workers were in high spirits.
9
The high spirits of the boy sought to forestall the next move.
10
They were resting and talking in high spirits by the library fire.
11
He said they were in high spirits and they were well treated.
12
One evening Peer came home from the post-office apparently in high spirits.
13
When at last they quittedthebedroomthey seemed in high spirits.
14
He was in high spirits as he caught the east bound train.
15
Lovell and Flood appeared at the camp about dusk-Lovellin high spirits.
16
The dinner was a cheerful meal, and everyone was in high spirits.
