The short time passed on deck was my only solace, and yet even there I found little to interest, except a continuous new hope.

Meanwhile this solace to my soul is sweet, That my black night doth make more clear the sun Which at your birth was given to wait on you.

Yet ere we yield our breath, on earth below Why need a little solace be denied?

Here dreadful silence, solitary caves, No chirping birds with solace singing sweetly, Are harbour'd for delight; but from the oak, Leafless and sapless through decaying age, The screech-owl chants her fatal-boding lays.

We simply seemed to have drifted together because we were both miserable, and then, as the time passed onwell, you came to be my only solace against the wretchedness of that life.

Why should not they travel to Brighton on the Friday evening and draw solace for their weary souls from a Saturday, Sunday, and possibly Monday, at Brighton?

Then let us solace, and in love's delight

His estimates, based upon pure reason, personal experience and some two tons of figures, have been carefully revised and brought to date, more especially for the benefit of those busy people who cannot take a holiday by the sea, but like to solace themselves at home with a weekly immersion in Mud and Water.

No other hand into my soul Could greater solace bring, Than that I held last night, which was Four aces and a king.

Writing ballads was the solace of his leisure hours.

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And she felt a profound gratitude, a sweet solace in the thought, mingled with a sort of angry bitterness against evil fortune.

And as one said of hawking and hunting, tot solatia in hac aegri orbis calamitate, mortalibus taediis deus objecit, I say of all honest recreations, God hath therefore indulged them to refresh, ease, solace and comfort us.

And when the last farewell is said, A solace to each heart shall be The memory of that love which spoke In parting tones, "Remember me!" HONOR THY PARENTS.

Perhaps, had pain-racked, dying Bianca imagined the splendid destiny of the attractive young Princess Maria, she might have gathered no little solace.

How many stout trees I saw,how many tender flowers,how many placid pools; yes, and how many little streams winding out of sight, shrinking before the large, hard, round eyes opposite, and slipping off into solitude and shade, with a low, inner song for their own solace.

Then, half in fury, half in dread, The fiends drew closer down, and said: "Nay, thou stubborn fond old man, Hearken awhile! Thorn, and dust, and ice and heat, Tarry now, sit down and eat: Heat, and ice, and dust and thorn; Stricken, footsore, parched, forlorn Juice of purple grape shall be Youth and solace unto thee.

In later times, they play and sing for the solace of the divine Infant, not merely adoring, but ministering: but these angels ministrant belong to another class of pictures.

Books more than ever became her solace and joy.

She loved all who offered her affection, and would solace and advise with any.

As Saul's afflicted spirit from the sound Of David's harp, a present solace found; So, on this theme while we our Muse engage, No wounds are felt, of fortune or of age.

Joy so complete, so solid, and severe, Would leave no place for meaner pleasures there; 290 Pale they would look, as stars that must be gone, When from the East the rising sun comes on. 'Solace found': 1 Sam. xvi.