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Sentences starting with comfort

Comfort is essential to enjoyment. [6]
Comfort thee, my prince: trouble not thy poor head with this matter. [5]
Comfort for some of us, dear fellow-writer. [6]
Comfort thee: let me to the palace where he is, and straightway will the King my father restore him to thee. [5]

Sentences ending with comfort

Even at meals you never have an hour of peace and comfort. [10]
And yet when you come to think, there is no real difference between a conscience and an anvil--I mean for comfort. [5]
But her first words were of my comfort. [9]
Her house is very pleasant, both within and without; arranged at; all points with admirable neatness and comfort. [14]
The party were very courteous and friendly, and contributed in various ways to our comfort. [6]
The man was vain and selfish to run any risk, to do anything that might endanger her safety--that is, her happiness and comfort. [11]
They were able to do this night what they had not done for days --dig a great grave of snow, and building a fire of pine wood at each end of this strange house, get protection and something like comfort. [11]
There is reason to believe that many who are now upon the pension rolls and in receipt of the bounty of the government are in the ranks of the insurgent army or giving them aid and comfort. [7]
The soil is thin, the trees are slender, and one sees not much luxury or comfort. [4]
His house in the monastery suited his longing for rest; he obtained a position in the morocco factory in the valley below, which afforded him a support, and his daughters provided for his physical comfort. [10]

Short sentences using comfort

There's comfort in that. [12]
Is that seeking spiritual comfort? [5]
This was our only comfort. [5]
But that was insufficient comfort. [5]
There's some comfort in that! [9]
Give me some comfort. [5]
That was her comfort. [12]
Every comfort would be provided. [10]
That's one comfort. [11]

Sentences containing comfort two or more times

The good man yearned to comfort her, and yet he felt his comfort too humble to be noticed by such sorrow. [9]
After dinner I went below and took a seat in the stone-paved court, where the customary lemon-trees stand in the customary tubs, and said to myself, "Now this is comfort, comfort and repose, and nobody to disturb it; I do not know anybody in Milan. [5]
All the use that money can be put to is to purchase comfort and enjoyment in this life; therefore, as you are an enemy to comfort and enjoyment, where is the use of accumulating cash? [5]
Returning to their ships and finding the water shallow, they rowed over to a point of land, where they found from six to twelve fathoms of water, which put them in good comfort, therefore they named that part of the land Cape Comfort. [4]
A feeling of helplessness, of utter desolation crept over Janet; powerless to comfort herself, how could she comfort her sister? [9]
I want to give you an assurance, which I know will comfort you--and that is, that I find in my husband the tenderest nurse, the kindest support, the best earthly comfort that ever woman had. [14]
I tried to comfort her, who could not comfort myself; I don't remember my inadequate words. [9]
It would be a comfort to have his body; it would be a dreary comfort. [12]
Yes, there was a choice to be made, between bodily comfort on the one hand and the comfort of the spirit on the other. [5]

More example sentences with the word comfort in them

It lies in your power to comfort a sad and loving heart, and to give it one happy moment before death. [10]
My visits to your mother have been to me a comfort, a pleasure,--for she is a rare person. [9]
You always have your appetites too, and what a comfort that is. [12]
I see that you, too, are ready to depart and should grieve to behold the comfort of your aged hosts destroyed by hasty acts that may yet be needless. [10]
I am sure you will join me in the hope for their further success; while yourself, and other good mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, do all you and they can, to relieve and comfort the gallant soldiers who compose them. [7]
Friend, I pray you repress those tears, Comfort from this derive: I am a score--and more-of years And Jean is only five. [11]
It will give you no trouble and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. [2]
The latest picture you have of him in health and strength must be such a comfort to you! [5]
He would just yell that way, not for anything in particular, but merely on account of a kind of devilish comfort he got out of it. [5]
In February, Howells wrote: "If you have got any comfort in regard to our play I wish you would heave it into my bosom. [5]
Fully clothed, and wrapped in blankets, and huddled ourselves up, by the window, with lighted pipes, and fell into chat, while we waited in exceeding comfort to see how an Alpine sunrise was going to look by candlelight. [5]
And when I would rise from table silent and with drooping head, the Magister would full often beg leave to follow me to my chamber, and comfort me after his own guise. [10]
By day he would look his dumb compassion in the captain's face; and by night, in the darkness and the driving spray and rain, he would seek out the captain and try to comfort him with caressing pats on the shoulder. [5]
Sir John Herschel would have told them that this made little difference in accounting for the formation of worlds by aggregation, but at any rate it was a comfort to them. [6]
Then Miles Hendon would cripple some of those people, and carry off his little ward, and comfort and cheer him with loving words, and the two would never be separated any more. [5]
I knew she would be solicitous about what he might do down here, so I did it to quiet her and to comfort her. [5]
His art, too, would be a comfort to him, and if he only had the chance of making his way in his career he would have no difficulty in winning Agatha. [10]
You mustn't trifle with it, you know, or it may turn to pneumonia," she would go on, deriving much comfort from the utterance of that foreign word, incomprehensible to others as well as to herself. [2]
I can't write with comfort when I am interrupted so much as I have been to-day. [5]
He was the widow's comfort and her pride. [5]
This is he who had never known aught but rags for raiment, kicks for comfort, and offal for diet! [5]
The only thing which we old folks do not willingly relinquish is personal comfort, and I thank you for enduring annoyances so patiently for the sake of securing mine.--It is a terrific summer! [10]
The room in which Kit sat himself down, in this condition, was an extremely poor and homely place, but with that air of comfort about it, nevertheless, which--or the spot must be a wretched one indeed--cleanliness and order can always impart in some degree. [12]
That wondrous hymn which Judge Whipple loved, which for years has been the comfort of those in distress, floated softly with the night air out of the open window. [9]
It was only when he had to face the too impressive adoration of Madame Lavilette that his comfort got a twist. [11]
A little of what Mr. Bolton has weakly given to unworthy people would now establish his family in a sort of comfort, and relieve Ruth of the excessive toil for which she inherited no adequate physical vigor. [5]
And if you were to die--" her voice broke a little as she passed her hand over my brow, "if you were to die, my single comfort would have been that you wore it then. [9]
In Hamley there were but two in whom she had any real comfort and help--Lady Eglington and the old chair-maker. [11]
Howbeit, one single well-spent hour in life, or one toilsome deed fruitful for good, hath at all times brought me better comfort than a whole pile of pig-skin-covered tomes. [10]
If it be weakness to confess that I need your reassurance, your strength and comfort constantly, then I am weak. [9]
My only comfort was that Constantine had just quitted the pretty little hussy. [10]
Lady Rosebery, who was kindness itself, would have had us stay and sit down in comfort at the supper-table, after the crowd had thinned, but we were tired with all we had been through, and ordered our carriage. [6]
Even when I was in proper position and carefully balanced upon the balls of my feet, there was no comfort in it, on account of my nervous dread that they were going to slip one way or the other in a moment. [5]
What comfort there was in it we had in knowing that she was a favorite in the society of which we read such glowing descriptions, and that no one else bore its honors more winningly. [4]
One thing alone was a comfort to me, and that was that my heart beat with more pitiful and faithful love for him than ever. [10]
And yet it was a comfort to him to think that he had broken his pipe. [10]
Overpowered by the warmth and comfort and the fatigue they had undergone, Nelly and the old man had not long taken their seats here, when they fell asleep. [12]
Susan and Jane, waiting to give her comfort when she was recovered a little from this unknown but overwhelming affliction, were fain to stand mute when they saw her to pay a silent deference to one whom sorrow had lifted far above them and transfigured. [9]
She had been visiting Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner, but by the physician's advice had been removed to the comfort and quiet of her own home, only a few steps away. [5]
I could not, upon my honor, see that there was any place for me, and I went my own way, not that there was much comfort in it. [4]
That faith, imposed upon me by self-interest in that ancient day, remains my faith today, and in it I find comfort, solace, peace, and never-failing joy. [5]
She rocked herself upon a chair, wringing her hands and weeping bitterly, but Kit made no attempt to comfort her and remained quite bewildered. [12]
Afterward we walked up and down one of the most popular streets for some time, enjoying other people's comfort and wishing we could export some of it to our restless, driving, vitality-consuming marts at home. [5]
March understood the unwillingness of the poor to leave the worst conditions in the city for comfort and plenty in the country when he reflected upon this dramatic incident, one of many no doubt which daily occur to entertain them in such streets. [8]
We remained there until the spring, and then removed to a house more immediately in the town, a charming old-fashioned mansion, once lived in by John de Witt, where he had a large library and every domestic comfort during the year of his sojourn. [6]
If he buys two cents' worth of peanuts, his father says, "Remember what Franklin has said, my son--'A grout a day's a penny a year"'; and the comfort is all gone out of those peanuts. [5]
You were sincerely trying to do him a kindness; let that comfort you. [5]
I would have tried to make you happy; you would have had peace and comfort all your life; you could have trusted me--but there it is. [11]
The young people tried to comfort him; and when at last he was more composed and had dried his tears, he said, in so melancholy and subdued a tone that the angry blusterer was scarcely recognizable: "There--leave me alone; it will soon be over. [10]
It is a town of wide avenues and noble distances, and is comely and alluring, and full of suggestions of comfort and leisure, and of the serenity which a good conscience buttressed by a sufficient bank account gives. [5]
And so I told the old dame, to comfort her, albeit she struggled furiously to get the babe from me. [10]
Hereupon I hastily told him that we had hunted down the robbers and rescued it, and it was a joy to see how much comfort and delight this was to him. [10]
She turned them to the sea-instinctively towards that point on the shore where she thought it likely Michel might be; as though by looking she might find comfort and support in this hard hour. [11]
On the way to the hospital at Quebec, however, Jo had been so careful of her father, so respectful when speaking of M'sieu', so regardful of her own comfort, that her antagonism to him was lulled. [11]
Slade came out to the coach and saw us off, first ordering certain rearrangements of the mail-bags for our comfort, and then we took leave of him, satisfied that we should hear of him again, some day, and wondering in what connection. [5]
But I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your work, and--and what a comfort you have been to me in my poor labors. [4]
He was fain to take what comfort he could from this expression of good-will. [9]
I can't stop to spell the words for you, but you can take the letter presently and comfort your eyes with it. [5]
I have learned to smoke in a week, and the trouble is already over with me; if you would try, you could learn too, and then you would stop spoiling my comfort with your everlasting complaints. [5]
I had looked to see the Vicomtesse comfort her. [9]
Instead of continuing to listen to the Greek sentences which Herr Wilibald Pirckheimer was reading aloud to the others, he could not help thinking of the pious, gentle little woman who, with her cheerful kindness, so well understood how to comfort and to sustain courage. [10]
He had come to his mother, believing that the visit would comfort and calm his troubled mind, but Sappho's words had destroyed his last hope, and with that his last possibility of rest or peace. [10]
He was left to himself, however, and there was comfort in that. [12]
She came near to him, but there was no encouragement to her to play that part which is a woman's deepest right and joy and pain in one--to comfort her man in trouble, sorrow, or evil. [11]
I will go to him now, and be what help I can to him, and get what comfort I may out of the few days that are left to us before the night comes which will have no end for me in life. [5]
Evelyn had come to her refuge for comfort, and to Evelyn the comforter it was she herself who must be the comforter. [4]
It was difficult to elude their attention; yet close by Ephraim's couch, which his uncle, for greater comfort, had helped him make on the side of a gently sloping hill, a narrow ravine ran down to the valley. [10]
Yet they wished to deprive her of this exquisite treasure, this peerless comfort for the soul! [10]
So she began to cry; but presently remembering an old book that seemed to comfort him at times, got up and brought a Bible in the Latin version, called the Vulgate. [6]
Our well-meant efforts to comfort them were rejected; they were angry with us for placing them in such an unpleasant position. [10]
And she tried to comfort him, but that was not possible. [5]
He had come to comfort and to condole, and lo! [10]
I was going to buy a paper-cutter, but I believed I could remember the cold comfort of the Rigi-Kulm without it, so I smothered the impulse. [5]
It was foolish to be afraid there, yet still I was; so afraid that I held in and hardly even whimpered, though it would have been such a comfort to whimper, because that eases the pain, you know. [5]
He denied himself to all who wished to see him or to comfort him, he even refused to admit the notary Winckler. [10]
And this leads to a remark upon the shocking indifference of some novelists to the ordinary comfort of their characters. [4]
We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs. [5]
The Emperor rode through the streets to comfort the inhabitants, and, despite his preoccupation with state affairs, himself visited the theaters that were established by his order. [2]
Everybody uses it, though, and everybody gets comfort out of it. [5]
We belong to those who have learnt to 'look upwards'--there goes the ball, up again!--and who find comfort in doing so. [10]
Euryale also feared this, and Melissa realized what filled them with anxiety; yet she by no means shared the feeling, and the happy confidence with which she tried to comfort her old friends, at the same time pacified and alarmed them. [10]
With enough of this world's goods to give him comfort of body and suave gravity of manner, the figure he cut was becoming to his Quaker origin and profession. [11]
Since we breakfasted, this morning, we have seen enough to have furnished us food for a year's reflection if we could have seen the various objects in comfort and looked upon them deliberately. [5]
Never, as in this moment when the cold rain wet their faces, had the thought of its comfort and warmth and luxury struck him so vividly; yes, and of its terror and loneliness now, of the tortured spirit in it that found no rest. [9]
If any one thinks meanly of Penelope for counting upon the heroism of Irene to effect her unhappiness, let him reflect of how little consequence is the temporary happiness of one or two individuals compared with the peace and comfort of a whole social order. [4]
What a repast they would have made for the Atlantic whale we did not see, and what inward comfort it would have given him to have swum through them once or twice with open mouth! [4]
I thought that they would comfort you, and teach you to love the sublime Being whose exemplary life and pathetic death are no longer unknown to you, since Johanna told you the tale. [10]
When he said they must be going, Gorgo kissed the little singer; indeed, as soon as she saw how deeply she was grieved, shedding bitter but silent tears, she had hastened to take her in her arms and comfort her like a sister. [10]
They did everything they could think of to comfort him, but nothing succeeded until Wells-Fargo Ferguson, who is a clever strategist, said: "If it's only Sherlock Holmes that's troubling you, you needn't worry any more. [5]
I do envy these Europeans the comfort they take. [5]
Huck had slept there; he had just breakfasted upon some stolen odds and ends of food, and was lying off, now, in comfort, with his pipe. [5]
Here in everything there was the air, the decorum, and the unartificial comfort of home. [11]
All these had their hands full, trying to comfort Tracy. [5]
May Isis comfort thee, who saw thy son fall in the service of his king and father! [10]
The habitations on the way are mostly board shanties and mean frame cabins, but the railway is introducing ambitious architecture here and there in the form of ornamental filigree work on flimsy houses; ornamentation is apt to precede comfort in our civilization. [4]
Tom's guardian angels, the two lords, had had less comfort in the interview than the other parties to it. [5]
Anne is in the south, and Fort Comfort, where we go, is far north. [11]
Frau Schimmel regarded the sorrowful man with deep sympathy, and as it was in her nature to try and comfort those who wept rather than to join in their lamentations, she cast about her for something that would console him. [10]
Oh my soul, the sight of you is such a comfort to my eyes! [5]
Food and fire, the priceless comfort of a blanket on the ground, and a saddle or kit for a pillow gave men compensation for all the hardships and dangers of the day; and they gave little thought to the morrow. [11]

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