"If they speak to us when we're tired out and heartbroken we hear their voices only in our souls that are suddenly and strangely consoled.

For the rest, we might readily console ourselves.

These last words of my beloved and long-known friend are sweetly consoling to my spirit.

Randle Janvers Binderbeck is secretly consoling himself by writing the most denunciatory articles.

She covered her head by reason of her exceeding fear, but the knight consoled her courteously.

This consoled her delightfully for all her miseries.

Such was the consolation with which Dolly consoled herself.

It may be that my affection for the "narrow ego" is too violent, but, for myself, I do not find M. Maeterlinck's consolations more genuinely consoling than other philosophy.

"The more wealth for those who are left," Tyee grimly consoled.

The Princess was immeasurably consoled to find that the body-servant had destroyed the fuses and that they were in no immediate danger of being blown to pieces.

The fact that a belief is "consoling," quite independently of its truth or falsehood, creates a bias towards its acceptance.

I do not believe that the knowledge of this facteven had we possessed it at the timewould have materially consoled us for the disappointment we felt in being obliged to stop shooting just when we had learned to do it so beautifully; but, still, it is something to have been in at the finish.

A few moments later the manager, having been apprised of the theft, entered the dimly lighted quarters, not to search the other bunks for their stolen property, but merely to console his robbed guests, so they would not report their loss to the police and cause unpleasant comment in the papers.

His cargo was upwards of 120,000 l. which ruined Mr. Betterton, and broke the fortune and heart of his friend in the city: As for doctor Radcliffe, he expressed great concern for Mr. Betterton, but none for himself; the Dr. merrily consoled himself with observing, 'that it was only trotting up 200 pair of stairs more, and things are as they were.

The thought of Mary's turpitude had consoled him mysteriously.

" Of course at the Cape we only heard one side of the question; and I began to be almost convinced that it was as necessary for humanity, as for the repose of Europe, that the giant should be put down; and I was consoled when it was effected, ostensibly, at least, by the voice of the people.

But it is a reflection, moreover, peculiarly consoling, that, whilst wars are generally aggravated by their baneful effects on the internal improvements and permanent prosperity of the nations engaged in them, such is the favored situation of the United States that the calamities of the contest into which they have been compelled to enter are mitigated by improvements and advantages of which the contest itself is the source.

Mr. Slope returned to town, and promptly consoled the widow of a rich sugar-refiner.

But perfumes and garlands can do little in such case; pleasures may divert, but they can scarcely console.

But though he had angrily cast her out of his heart, she still loved him, having in the meantime rejected Charles Musgrove, who subsequently consoled himself by marrying her sister Mary.

That afternoon the nephew begs, entreats for more money; they have a row; the poor woman is in tears, and is only temporarily consoled by a pleasant visit at the theatre.

As for Arthur Pendennis, after that awful shock which the sight of his dead father must have produced on him, and the pity and feeling which such an event no doubt occasioned, I am not sure that in the very moment of the grief, and as he embraced his mother and tenderly consoled her and promised to love her forever, there was not springing up in his breast a sort of secret triumph and exultation.

O Yudhishthira, thereat consoling her with soft words, he enquired of her as to the cause of her grief.

She dwelt upon what was comforting, though conscious that there was little to veritably console.

And having abundantly consoled that slender-waisted daughter of Drupada by means of words fraught with grave reason and sense, he wiped with his hands her face flooded with tears.