The welfare bill is not the only sign of this change in the old American spirit.

She shuddered but answered him with more of her old spirit.

But not all of the old subversive spirit is gone.

"Sure," he said with a little of his old spirit.

"By going together, we will be taking the old spirit with us," she said.

But as Obama gets back on the campaign trail, aides have noticed his old spirit again.

They're learning to become strong once more, and the old spirit of defeat is gone now.

You've told me so several times,' she said with a flash of her old spirit.

Who cares, in the old spirit of America at its pragmatic best?

Sylvia is younger than her sisters, but has an old spirit.