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Example sentences for "comfort her"

  • The great heath was all around, solitary as the heaven out of which the solitary moon, with no child to comfort her, was enviously watching them.

  • Remembering how the girl had shrunk from him before, he feared himself unfit to help, and knew himself unable to comfort her.

  • But Odysseus would not take it, and he strove to comfort her, till at the last he swore to her that before the year's end her husband should stand before her.

  • The black mists were spreading over the sky, but still Herakles sought to gaze on the fair face of Iole and to comfort her in her sorrow.

  • Her father was now old and weak, and he knew that he must soon die, but it grieved him most of all that he must leave his child in a grief more bitter than if Kephalos had remained to comfort her.

  • Poor Susan had not that thought to comfort her, but still it did not trouble her.

  • Mrs Kempson received the poor widow with much kindness, and did her best to comfort her.

  • He, like a good son, was doing his best to comfort her.

  • This thought had sufficed to comfort her, as the evil of absolute destitution was close upon her.

  • But she still wore some remains of the black garments which had been given to her at her mother's funeral; and she still grieved bitterly for her mother, having no woman with her in that gloomy house, and no other child to comfort her.

  • He did not stoop to raise her, nor, at the moment, did he say a word to comfort her.

  • The Duchess was by this time in a perfect sea of tears and Daimur had given up trying to comfort her.

  • I tried to comfort her by saying we would help her to look for it as soon as it was light, but she shook her head.

  • I could have been so glad to comfort her, and cherish her, if she had been in trouble.

  • And as she cried softly to herself, with no one to comfort her, the memory of Christopher swept over her, and with it all the old anger against him.

  • Jemima looked gratefully up at the kindly prophet who was trying to comfort her.

  • Our neighbours gathered about her, and tried to comfort her; but she was insensible to all that they could say.

  • And she burst out into louder lamentations, and all our endeavours to comfort her were in vain; though, in fact, my sufferings were almost as great as hers.

  • If the young lord is dying, let him die; her Grace has other children, and God will know how to comfort her.

  • She was so wrapped up in her own feelings that through it all she never noticed that Alice was not near her, that Alice did not speak to comfort her.

  • You see, since my father and brother were slain in the last fight with our neighbours, I am the only one left to comfort her, so I cannot forsake her.

  • Then she sought to comfort her, and made her relate, bit by bit, with many a sob between, what had occurred.

  • He took leave of them, and Lily walked home, scarcely hearing the soothing words with which Emily strove to comfort her.

  • She had the mortification of seeing the carriage turn out at the gates, and take the Raynham road; she was not even seen, nor had she a wave of the hand, or a smile to comfort her.

  • Esther thought she had guessed the cause of her tears, and tried to comfort her.

  • I said all I could to comfort her; but it was a sad reflection, that instead of being able to help her, I was a constant source of anxiety and trouble.

  • I tried to comfort her, by telling her that I had laid up a hundred dollars, and that before long I hoped to be able to give her and Benjamin a home, and send them to school.

  • Remember how much she has to bear, and that we ought to do all we can to comfort her.

  • Since her husband was there to comfort her, with his constant presence to sustain her, all must be well; never again would she be nervous, irritable, or sarcastic.

  • You see, she wanted her husband to comfort her.

  • And Dulce hid her face on Nan's shoulder in such undisguised distress that her sisters had much ado to comfort her.


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