"Down in the mouth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the most wonderful change in this college. I rather think it is seeing what St. Ambrose's is now, and thinking what it was in my time, and what an uncommon member of society I should have turned out if I had had the luck to have been here now instead of then, that makes me down in the mouth—more even than having to pull in the torpid instead ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... and this no doubt led to the allusion. He was limping along, looking decidedly down in the mouth, which, indeed, ...
— The Young Adventurer - or Tom's Trip Across the Plains • Horatio Alger
... "Well, don't be down in the mouth about it, my boy!" said Beau sympathetically. "It'll all come right, depend upon it! Your wife's a sweet, gentle, noble creature,—and when once she knows all about the miserable mistake that has arisen, I don't know which will be greatest, her happiness ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... tiresome operation—so choking! He (Mr. Smith, the surgeon) was about an hour at it. He was more kind and considerate than can be expressed; when he went I said to him, 'I am very much obliged to you, first for telling me the truth, and secondly for waiting for me.' For when I got 'down in the mouth,' he waited, and chatted till I screwed up my courage again. He said, 'When people are reasonable it is barbarous to hurry them, and I said you were that when I ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden
... think it is seeing what St. Ambrose's is now, and thinking what it was in my time, and what an uncommon member of society I should have turned out if I had had the luck to have been here now instead of then, that makes me down in the mouth—more even than having to pull in the torpid instead of ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes |
