Meanings of poor-spirited creature in English

I suppose I'm a poor-spirited creature, but that is how I feel.

It will make her a tyrant and you a poor-spirited creature of no account in the world.

But he went quite quick enough for Margaret, a poor-spirited creature, who had chickens and children on the brain.

So little has the world been influenced by Christ's teaching that it uses ' poor-spirited creature' as a term of opprobrium and depreciation.

Estada might return, and besides the man was evidently a poor-spirited creature, little apt to be of service even if he so desired.

Here again, if I give you an honest account of my feelings I shall write myself down as the poor-spirited creature I suppose I am.

One of those poor-spirited creatures that can be content with the aftermath of love.

Poor-spirited creatures Connecticut maids must have been to endure meekly such an ungallant custom and such ungallant lovers.

'I've been off tucker since yesterday,' said the man, who seemed a poor-spirited creature.

' Poor-spirited creature,' I said, 'where is thy valour?

"I'm such a poor-spirited creature," remarked Eloise.

Governesses to her were poor-spirited creatures afraid of rats, and the dark passages-andone and all resentful of the rag-stuffed panes in the long gallery.