- asked the General and the Colonel's spirits immediately flagged.

Hawk's spirits flagged again when he heard this.

But for an instant, Gilbenstock's spirits flagged.

As the war dragged on, the spirit of the revolution's early days flagged.

But his irrepressible spirits soon flagged under the leaden weight of Sebastian's and Alexandra's stiff silence.

Her spirit flagged somewhat when only the elderly couple came to the dining room.

Yet our spirits flagged, as the day drew near which we had fixed for our departure.

But when he came to practise the precepts they had given him, his spirits flagged, for the impediments were great.

When spirits flagged during the long confrontation, her resolve stiffened the will of the "sitdowners."