The lethargy and dispiritedness, caused by their week of inaction, fell from them like a cloak.
"The Adventures of Sally"
P. G. Wodehouse
I am glad to say that we despised the conventional poetastery about her; but I believe that we had so far lived into sympathy with her, that, whether we realized it or not, we took the tone of her dispiritedness, and assumed a part of the common experience of loss and of hopelessness.
"Venetian Life"
W. D. Howells