Even I, for the first time, lost all courage, and my only consolation was the joy of Annette.

Consolation is clearly a blunder, Malone's conjecture mortification seems absurd.

And with love, woman's best consolation, to be your comforter, why should you be unhappy?

As she bowed to no disaster and no grief, consolation would have been the last thing in any religion that she looked for.

Where there was a preceding thought to account for the emotion, he held that the "consolation" might be the work of spirits (good or evil) who could not influence the will directly, but only indirectly through the mind; or else it might be the work of the mind itself, whose thoughts often seem to us abrupt through mere failure of self-observation.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one.

The very small consolation of my death will be the beating of a specialist in his own line.

The consolations of egoism are simply a change of attitude or a resort to a new kind of diet which soothes and fattens it.

See, cried she, the little reason you, have to speak in the praise of love; for if pity be all you have to hope for from your, mistress, I am afraid the consolation will be no way adequate to the misfortune.

The end of all things seemed to be at hand; and the only consolation of the great churchmen of the age was the belief in the second coming of our Lord.

" Rachel might have known that the consolation offered by fatalists is only the recommendation of a resignation which, as fated itself, is gloomy, if not awful, for it amounts to an annihilation of self, with all hopes, energies, and resolutions.

The Persian monarch forbidding sackcloth had forgotten that consolation is a royal prerogative; but the King of kings has not forgotten this, and very sweet and availing is His sovereign sympathy.

The only consolation in her life was her love for her husband.

'I'm upon my death-bed and my consolation is the remembrance of our mutual faith plighted to each other a short time before our quarrel.

His only consolation was the faith that was in him, a "very present help," as he found, "in time of trouble."

In the humiliation of this period of my life, in which I came to consider myself as little better than a fool, my only consolation was the large liberty I enjoyed in the woods and fields with my father on Saturdays, or with my brothers Charles and Jacob on their long botanizing excursions, or in the moments of leisure when I was not wanted to turn the grindstone or blow the bellows in the workshop.

I comforted her as well as I could, and I found the best consolation I could give was the honest praise that came from my heart as I spoke of the deceased.

His consolation was the charm of the girl's companionship, the delight of a nature knowing itself from moment to moment as if newly created.

In the papers of one of them killed on August 28 there was found an article written in reply to "The Loom of Youth," ending with these words: "Perhaps the greatest consolation of these attacks on our greatest heritage in England (for we are the unique possessors of the Public Schools) is the conviction that they will have but little effect.

His consolation was the charm of the girl's companionship, the delight of a nature knowing itself from moment to moment as if newly created.

Mary remembered what a consolation and strength in all wakefulness had been the glimmer of the light under her godmother's door.

Your mother labours to forget him; her only consolation for sorrows such as few women ever experienced, is her child, yourself, your love.

The only consolation I have is the hope that they are all dead.

Visions of the ship failing to return to New Zealand and of sixty people waiting here arose in my mind with sickening pertinacity, and the only consolation I could draw from such imaginations was the determination that the southern work should go on as beforemeanwhile the least ill possible seemed to be an extensive lightening of the ship with boats as the tide was evidently high when she strucka terribly depressing prospect.

God had abandoned the good and faithful, and the traitors and evil-doers were triumphant; his only consolation was the stronghold of the temple, which had lived through so many centuries of turmoil, and could still defy its enemies for so many more.