Solaces

Still stooped and utterly defeated, I walk through the double oak doors out of the House of Friendship and Peace, which, as it has just become clear, offers neither of the two solaces it was named for. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

For Beckett, all years were wilderness years, but the ones from 1929-40 lacked the later solaces of a steady income and eager publishers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These were the addictions, solaces, crutches—call them what you will—that he would not forgo despite the pleas of Tess Gallagher and all the others who loved him and had long worried over his health. ❋ Carol Sklenicka (2009)

And as she had chosen neither for character, nor for disposition, neither from sympathy nor respect, she found it hard to submit where she meant to become independent, and difficult to take the cares where she had made no provision for the solaces of domestic life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He but solaces his sadness by a confidence he holds sacred; 'tis the type of our friendship, now dearer, he says, than ever, since reciprocated by such sympathy. ' ❋ Unknown (2008)

Almighty hath written for the creature of good and bad cometh to pass and needs must betide him from this day to that a thousand solaces. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For what restored and refreshed me chiefly, was the solaces of other friends with whom I did love what instead of thee I loved: and this was a | P1249 | p1 great fable and protracted lie, by whose adulterous stimulus our soul, which lay itching in our ears, was defiled. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and delights. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Thus the late Mr Justice MacCardie, in summing up the case of Mrs Frankau, remarked: ‘Women cannot be expected to renounce an essential feature of femininity or to abandon one of nature’s solaces for a constant and insuperable physical handicap ... ❋ Unknown (2003)

In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Let us cherish these as the only Pledge that is left us; and while you are passing chearful Evenings at Daldowie; while Robin with his Negroes (and happy are they that are under him) is planting his Sugar Canes and while I am climbing these rugged Mountains, there is a secret Virtue like a Magnet which attracts us together and chears or solaces us in every situation. ❋ Unknown (2000)

For what restored and refreshed me chiefly was the solaces of other friends, with whom I did love, what instead of ❋ Unknown (1999)

Such a variety of encounters and responses have been due, naturally, to profound searches for new directions in their cultural adventures, seeking solaces to counter the remorseless mechanization of their existence, indeed seeking new meanings for the mystery of life and attempting to overcome the social malaise created by the very triumphs of their own civilization. ❋ Unknown (1986)

"Your presence, fair Queen, solaces me, as I am about to suffer for love of you!" he cried. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)

One of her greatest solaces during this difficult decade was the garden at her Abiquiu house. ❋ Laurie Lisle (1986)

In the misery of his dereliction and afflicted by the devitalizing consquences attendant upon it, he had preferred the indulgences of self-pity and the delusory solaces of paga to the exultant and proud imposition of his will, as a dominant male, on the hearts and bodies of writhing female slaves. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1982)

And then if she solaces herself with a lover -- as she must, or die -- she is continually agitated with fears of her husband's jealousy, and the dread of discovery. ❋ George Thompson (N/A)

One thing vexes, yet solaces, me in this tale of Count Gismond. ❋ Ethel Colburn Mayne (N/A)

'That guy is much like Will Solace,he's [freaking] adorable' 'Well,can't [argue] [with that].' ❋ Thepercyjacksonfandom (2016)

The [solace] did little to take [my mind] off the [loss]. ❋ Jakabones (2006)

Solace - people [you would] [regret] [leaving] if found ❋ Berrychu123 (2020)

[The sky] is so [beautiful] it reminds me of [solace] ❋ (2021)

Did you see [solace] [dominating] at members [gate]? They then ran when zhandaly died. ❋ SMDbobbilly409ULIEDTOBANME (2011)

Did you see Solace just [dominating] [Corruption] at members [gate]? ❋ Bobbilly409LIEDtobanme (2011)

The man was in [solace] in his [distance] [mountain home]. ❋ Jefferey Patterson (2020)

[The Governor] [paused] and looked reflectively over at Bond. He said: "You're not married, but I think it's the same with all relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. That particular insult to the ego - worse, to the instinct of self-preservation - can never be forgiven. I've noticed this in hundreds of marriages. I've seen [flagrant] infidelitiespatched up, I've seen crimes and even murder forgiven by the other party, let alone bankruptcy and every other form of social crime. [Incurable disease], blindness, disaster - all these can be overcome. But never the death of common humanity in one of the partners. I've thought about this and I've invented a rather high-sounding title for this basic factor in human relations. I have called it the Law of the Quantum of Solace." ❋ TFred (2009)

"[Seraphim Solace] is an amazing [stripper]! [Shake it], baby!" ❋ Waltherroot12 (2017)

Person 1: Hey, do you listen to solace capone? Person 2: Who? Person 1: *Plays "[Somewhere] Out [In Space]" by solace capone* Person 2: [Holy shit]. ❋ Dickeater4444 (2022)