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Sentences ending with consolation

Dr. Leigh, who was laboring with a serious practical problem, heard this coldly, and with a certain contempt for what seemed to her a vague sort of consolation. [4]
For Philip there was in these days no such consolation. [4]
The young poet was in need of consolation. [6]
No tears came to relieve his grief, for the insult offered him that day aroused his wrath, and he cherished it as if it were a consolation. [10]
Amuse yourself with this little book, and take it as an apology for my silence," said Ambulinia, "while I attempt to answer this volume of consolation. [5]
Only Melissa was oppressed with anxious care, in spite of her lover's eager consolation. [10]
After the stage of despair comes the period of consolation. [6]
Usually she doesn't know what is going on around her, but as soon as consciousness returns she wants religious consolation. [10]
The fact that it was a wholesale grocery store was little consolation. [9]
This, of course, is some consolation. [5]

Short sentences using consolation

This was a great consolation. [10]
That is my consolation. [9]

More example sentences with the word consolation in them

Should she, as you fear, be destined to an early grave, it is indeed a great consolation to know that she is so well prepared to meet it. [7]
Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband. [10]
Under her loving words of consolation he soon regained his composure, and, still struggling against the rising tears, he cried: "Thank Heaven, there can be no more foolish talk of flight! [10]
Henry keeps up wonderfully, which is a great consolation to me. [5]
And if the will and letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s'ensuit! [2]
Mrs. F. G. Whitmore, an old Hartford friend, wrote Clemens of the things that Phelps had said, as consolation for Eve's latest banishment. [5]
To Boris, Julie was particularly gracious: she regretted his early disillusionment with life, offered him such consolation of friendship as she who had herself suffered so much could render, and showed him her album. [2]
Hogg says she was a prey to a kind of sweet melancholy, arising from causes purely imaginary; she required consolation, and found it in Petrarch. [5]
Let such of us as are not dukes find our consolation in that. [5]
She had been trying her powers of consolation on Miss Silence. [6]
He had been told that it was to-morrow, and not to-day, that the hideous act would be accomplished; and it was a consolation to her to know that he was spared the agony of following her in fancy in her fearful progress. [10]
Swift's account of the Struldbrugs is not very amusing reading for old people, but some may find it a consolation to reflect on the probable miseries they escape in not being doomed to an undying earthly existence. [6]
The conviction that the lazy herd whom he commanded was called upon to pour consolation into a thousand sorrowing hearts, to dry innumerable tears, and to clothe the dry sticks of despair with the fresh verdure of hope, urged him to strong measures. [10]
Do not overlook the desire for spiritual advice and consolation which patients sometimes feel, and, with the frightful mauvaise honte peculiar to Protestantism, alone among all human beliefs, are ashamed to tell. [6]
He had also the consolation of liking his work, and of getting an instant grasp of it that grew constantly firmer and closer. [8]
He had had that suspicion before, though it was a poor consolation when he could not reach her. [9]
It might have sufficed, accepted as a book of revelation, for all the purposes of moral guidance, spiritual consolation, and systematized authority, if it had been a collection of precepts, a dry code of morals, an arsenal of judgments, and a treasury of promises. [4]
This afforded Heinz some consolation, but enough remained to keep his grief alive, and his voice sounded very sorrowful as he added: "That lessens the bitterness of the cup. [10]
His soul was so agitated by the horrible incidents of the day that he needed to seek consolation among those from whom he was sure to find sympathy. [10]
Under its protection she would certainly, find rest, consolation and safety. [10]
But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. [7]
She is another pride, another consolation, for a great country whose mighty fleets have all vanished, and which has almost forgotten, what it is to fly its flag to sea. [5]
He was often overwhelmed, too, by the remembrance of the terrible end of the friend in whom he saw the only person who might have given him consolation in this distress, and the painful thought of his poverty. [10]
Outside we had our pipes for consolation, and the sunset beauty of the lake. [9]
Well, there is one consolation, such as it is--I've struck bottom this time; there's nothing lower. [5]
In the midst of the misery, as many would call it, of extreme old age, there is often a divine consolation in recalling the happy moments and days and years of times long past. [6]
In this frame of mind, it was some consolation to him to find that Richard Swiveller was, for different reasons, evidently irritated and disappointed by the same cause. [12]
Yet she could not, as usual, seek consolation with her saint. [10]
Sukey, however, got no small consolation from the sense of the greatness of the trust confided in her, and of the uproar she could make in Coniston if she chose. [9]
But I had no consolation to offer. [9]
But there was no consolation in that. [5]
I never so much needed the consolation of a friend's presence. [14]
Oh, that her mother were still alive--that she, Melissa, had been permitted to share this great consolation with her! [10]
Rhodopis hesitated a moment; then raising her hands as if in prayer, she cried: "Leave me my Sappho, the consolation and beauty of my old age. [10]
Perhaps she herself might be destined to die on the highway, without consolation, the very next day; but she could save this unhappy woman from it, and render her end easier. [10]
The younger generation may be told once more how effective a consolation man possesses--no matter what troubles may oppress him--in gratitude. [10]
She stopped at Loxa, where she administered aid and consolation to the wounded, distributing money among them for their support, according to their rank. [4]
The other anchorites long sought him in vain, as well as bishop Agapitus, who had learned from Petrus that the Alexandrian had been punished and expelled in innocence, and who desired to offer him pardon and consolation in his own person. [10]
It'll be some little consolation, and I believe it will be some help. [8]
Julie saw Boris' indecision, and sometimes the thought occurred to her that she was repulsive to him, but her feminine self-deception immediately supplied her with consolation, and she told herself that he was only shy from love. [2]
Tom Driscoll dropped in, an hour after dark, and said with a pleasant laugh as he took a seat: "Hello, we've gone back to the amusements of our days of neglect and obscurity for consolation, have we? [5]
Such consolation as I could gather from it was derived from four words at the end,--she missed me dreadfully. [9]
Even to them, however, is the consolation that though they may have been fully prepared for the coming of the inevitable event, it would have been none the less painful when it actually came. [4]
Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give him what consolation I can. [2]
It should undoubtedly have been a consolation to any rector to possess Mr. Atterbury's unqualified approval, to listen to his somewhat delphic compliments,--heralded by a clearing of the throat. [9]
I wish you happiness and consolation and hope to meet you again in happier circumstances. [2]
Then she ate greedily the food which Soada should have eaten; snatching scraps of consolation in return for the sympathy she gave. [11]
It is a great consolation to see them worse whipped than I am. [7]
He dared not go into the cavern, but he felt his eyes fill with tears, and he would willingly have spoken some word of consolation to her. [10]
What you have given me, what an inestimable boon, you yourself hardly know; but no emperor could reward love and fidelity more lavishly than you have done--you, the care and the consolation, the pain and the joy of my life! [10]
I seem to get strength, if not consolation. [14]
While he was generally obliged to maintain an attitude of defence toward her, she now seemed to need friendly consolation. [10]
Neither did I flatter myself that my poor company would be any consolation for that she had lost. [9]
There is some feeble consolation in thinking we are doing the very best that can be done. [14]
As for the face, I had a kind of consolation from it. [9]
He learned to expect this, and after suffering keenly from her disappointment with whatever he did he waited patiently till she forgot her grievance and began to extract what consolation lurks in the irreparable. [8]
But the Reverend Doctor did come and sit by her, and spoke such soothing words to her, words of such peace and consolation, that from that hour she was tranquil as never before. [6]
It is my desire to leave these Amended Obituaries neatly bound behind me as a perennial consolation and entertainment to my family, and as an heirloom which shall have a mournful but definite commercial value for my remote posterity. [5]
He saw no deliverance, no hope, no consolation. [10]
But an Indian daughter-in-law, a person in moccasins, was scarcely a thing to be congratulated upon; and yet sympathy and consolation might be much misplaced; no one could tell how the Armours would take it. [11]
Even in this dark hour I had a sweet consolation. [5]
Perhaps he finds consolation in the company of the two Annexes, or one of them,--but which, I cannot make out. [6]
Unable to seek consolation in prayer, as usual, she had given herself up to dull despair, but only for a short time. [10]
Sometimes she drew consolation from the thought that Peter had never seen him. [9]
He had this consolation at any rate. [9]
You and I both anticipated that the cause of the country would be advanced by making the attempt to provision Fort Sumter, even if it should fail; and it is no small consolation now to feel that our anticipation is justified by the result. [7]
My consolation must be that I have as company--in some of my heresies, at least--a goodly array of gentlemen who wear the cloth of the orthodox churches whose doctrines he accuses me of denying. [9]
My horse must be like the others, but I have at least the consolation of not knowing it to be so. [5]
This love must be denied, this longing of the heart for companionship could never be gratified, yet after all it was a sweet self-sacrifice, and the love itself brought its own consolation. [4]
If it will be any consolation to you to know it, Miss Vance, I can assure you that he was very unhappy, and I don't see how he could ever have been happy here. [8]
He called to Banks for a cogue of Nantsey, and swore amazingly at what he was pleased to term the inscrutability of woman, offering up consolation by the wholesale. [9]
In sending Antoinette away the poor lady denied herself the only consolation that was left to her. [9]
Bathsheba had said all she could in the way of consolation, and hastened back to her mother's bedside, which she hardly left, except for the briefest of visits. [6]
Then, as if afraid she might find some means of consolation, he returned and trying to appear calm added: "And don't imagine I have said this in a moment of anger. [2]
Whatever consolation the absence of catamount in a dark, drenched, and howling wilderness can impart, that I experienced; but I thought what a satire upon my present condition was modern culture, with its plain thinking and high living! [4]
Perhaps she found a partial consolation in the company of Mr. [6]
And then such a death... without friends and without consolation! [2]
All this was a consolation in his grief, and when the gem-cutter was alone with old Dido he burst into sobs. [10]

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