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• He is in good spirits.
  • Hän on hyvällä tuulella.
• to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be down-hearted, or in bad spirits
• Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.
• Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.
• I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.
• God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel’s persuasive idea of hell.
• the four spirits and the bodies seven
• the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document
• Be it a letter or spirit, we have great use for it.
• The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit.
• For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.
• God has [...] made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down.
• […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
• Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
• a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit
• "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.
• A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.
• In the spirit of forgiveness, we didn't press charges.
• No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[...]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
• School spirit is at an all-time high.
• The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.
• Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.
• A wandering spirit haunts the island.
• [...]a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.