That, however, was a solacement of his feelings which was not at the moment to be thought of; and Cristal Nixon presently put an end to his unpleasant situation, by ordering the riders to go on. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thomas Browne, and other renowned old authors, from whom I now derive so much pleasure and solacement. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Abbé entered from Lotharios chamber; beckoned Jarno to go in instead of him; and said to Wilhelm: The Baron bids me ask you to remain with us a day or two, to share his hospitality, and, in the present circumstances, contribute to his solacement. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The reader sighed, yet not without a reflex solacement: O, that I too had lived in those times, had never known these logic-cobwebs, this doubt, this sickliness; and been and felt myself alive among men alive! ❋ Unknown (1909)
Hilary and the brethren bowed low at these gracious words, and thought within themselves: Of a truth this may be a woman, but she is no less an Angel for our strength and solacement. ❋ William Canton (1909)
He has secret solacement in a latent belief that he himself is an exception. ❋ Henry Jones (1887)
As long as we remain within the realm of imagination, it may be argued, we may find in our poet's great sayings both solacement and strength, both rest and an impulse towards higher moral endeavour; but if we seek to treat them as theories of facts, and turn upon them the light of the understanding, will they not inevitably prove to be hallucinations? ❋ Henry Jones (1887)
To put up with the house was a right easy matter, almost a solacement, in sight of the deep misery of its poor mistress, spite of all her striving. ❋ Unknown (1883)
She had gone to Geraldine's quiet place in Manchester, rather as in duty bound than with much hope of solacement or even of greater quietude there; both of which, however, she found, so beautiful was Geraldine's/[Page 371]/affectionate skill with her, delicacy, wise silent sympathy and unwearied assiduity (coming by surprise too), for which she never forgot Geraldine. ❋ Unknown (1883)
That he was a wine-bibler and gross liver; gluttonously fond of whatever would yield him a little solacement, were it only of a stomachic character, is undeniable enough. ❋ Various (1885)
All summer last, my one solacement in the form of work was writing, and sorting of old documents and recollections; summoning out again into clearness old scenes that had now closed on me without return. ❋ Carlyle, Thomas (1883)
"Patience shall peradventure lead to solacement," quoth they; and ❋ Anonymous (1879)
Add to my passion, love of her, each night; and, solacement Of loves, the Resurrection be thy day of rendezvous! ❋ Anonymous (1879)
Many sad days were destined to pass over Israel before that future with its solacement of humor dawned. ❋ Gustav Karpeles (1878)
Poetry followed the race into exile, and clave to it through all vicissitudes, its solacement in suffering, the holy mediatrix between its past and future. ❋ Gustav Karpeles (1878)
Gustave Lenoble, who devoted much of his time to the solacement of the invalid. ❋ Unknown (1875)
She stood stunned and speechless a moment; then she remembered, with such solacement as the thought could furnish, that by another clear promise made by Cauchon himself -- she would at least be the Church's captive, and have women about her in place of a brutal foreign soldiery. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
King of Sweden, --- I am desirous of procuring him such solacement as you, madam, can supply, you being like the heathen god Esculapius '' (meaning possibly Apollo), ` ` skilful not only in song and in music, but in the more noble art of chirurgery --- ❋ Unknown (1871)
You cannot escape from it; you can but change your place in it without solacement except one moment's. ❋ William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870)
He was, as Mr. Carlyle puts it, "gluttonously fond of whatever would yield him a little solacement, were it only of a stomachic character." ❋ Leslie Stephen (1868)
