in high spirits

ADJECTIVE
  1. happy and excited and energetic
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How To Use in high spirits In A Sentence

  • I hastened around to the drug store not far away and "helloed" and repeated and fumed and swore in agony for half an hour, but I came back in high spirits. The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home
  • The filly pranced into the winner's circle in high spirits.
  • Both were in high spirits -- our hero at the idea of unrestrained license in future; and Bunch from a mesmerical transmission to himself of a portion of his master's deviltry. Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley
  • After an aperitif of homemade orange vodka, a little organic wine is drunk and everyone is in high spirits.
  • People were all in high spirits with Spring Festival scrolls written by officials and calligraphists in hand.
  • This was not the case of the person who seemed to be laughing a lot, inquiring whether that was because they were tiddly or whether they were simply in high spirits.
  • Both were in high spirits: our hero at the idea of unrestrained license in future; and Bunch from a mesmerical transmission to himself of a portion of his master's deviltry. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
  • They were in high spirits at the captures they had made; and the news which Brown gave them, that the polacre was laden with wine, assured to each of them a substantial sum in prize money. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
  • The parliamentary party left the session in high spirits, with their leader's entreaties ringing in their ears.
  • He was thought to have been "fey" -- namely, in high spirits -- recklessly hastening to a violent death; for as he rode along the crags close above Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
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