The act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit.
Papa will come with the next train; he has missed this one," his mother consoles him.
Great Nature begins again to enfold me, and her voice, which is now powerful again, consoles me.
Up till now, our first-line emplacement, which this time is in the village, has been favoured with complete calm, and I have known once more those hours of grace when Nature consoles me.
One must believe that it is the Academic uniform which imparts this self-possession, and this thoughtconsoles me not a little.
Nothing consoles her for the death of her daughter, and she seems to me less resigned than when the shock came.
Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains.
Vice stings us, even in our pleasures; but virtue consoles us, even in our pains.
God consoles in his own way; he blesses in the same.
He consoles this one, instructs that, reestablishes peace in disunited families, calms troubled consciences, administers gentle rebuke, or gives encouragement to the timid.
What consoles me is that the statue of the future will issue from it.
In the secret self of these hapless women is a strange equilibrium that consoles and reassures them.
My tables, consoles and tabourets, as well as the various instruments for my performance, symmetrically arranged on the stage, already presented an elegant appearance.
For these immense chests of deception I substituted consoles of gilt wood after the style of Louis XV.
It mingles with all other pleasures, and evenconsoles us for their absence.
It is the more valuable because it exposes us to all other gratifications and even consoles us for their loss.
Your skill revives invalids; your dexterity animates them; your sensibility consoles them.
Why does this monomaniac preserve both the garments of his youth, which prevent him from feeling his age, and the dream of his life, which consoles him for his lost reason?
But he will suppose God is good in the main; He has even made things which are better than Himself, and is envious that they are so, but consoles Himself that they can do nothing without Him.
Gorky is sad; he wants to weep; but the poor girl, miserable as she is, consoles him and covers him with kisses.
When she sees the young girl pouting, she consoles her by caressing her with the tact peculiar to women.
In accordance with the dedication to the Pope, he consoles himself for the general ruin by the thought of the precious relics of the saints in which Rome was so rich.
A visit from her dear Baerbele somewhat consoles her and delights Walter, the faithful house-friend.
He is detained however by Kundry, who tells him again of his beloved mother, and when Parsifal is sorrow-stricken at having forgotten her in his thoughtless rambles, she consoles him, pressing his lips with a fervent kiss.
The remembrance of this cruelty now torments him, but Gisela consoles her husband, hoping and praying that God will pardon the repentant sinner.
The first quarrel takes place between the couple, and Vulkan hearing it, consoles himself with the reflection that he is not the only one, to whom a fickle wife causes sorrow.
When the Abbot calls his new guest, he has {89} disappeared, and Sten Patrik consoles himself with the thought that the fugitive must have perished in the raging snow-storm.
Aennchen consoles her, diverting her with a merry song, until the bridesmaids {101} enter, bringing flowers and gifts.
It runs thus, and it consoles us with its crackling consonants for the discontinuance of further poetic flights on the part of its creator: "Ich kraxele auf der Leiter Und komme doch nicht weiter.
II "The remembrance of his playing consolesme for being no longer young.
He quite consoles us for the failure of the English to appreciate Matthew’s work.
The father consoles himself for the loss of his son; he has a stoical principle within him.
The pious soul whose prayer has failed consoles himself, therefore, by thinking that its fulfilment would not have been salutary for him.
Yet he consoles himself and his readers with a consideration which suggests that the end is not yet very near.
So many control consoles grouped around what had to be a control central couldn't be anything else.
It seems to me that it consoles me to make that gift to you.
I don't think that the hope of seeing his brother again in a better world consoles him for having lost him in this one.
Aurore consoles and charms me; I should like to live long enough to get her married.
My dear, kind friend, if you knew how much this proof of your friendship consoles me," he exclaimed.
My dear boy, I know what a kind heart you have, I know, too, how much you love me, and the only thing that consolesme for our poverty is the knowledge that you do not repine at your lot.
He consoles himself with the amazing reflection that Parry had failed in three attempts to reach the North Pole, and Bonaparte, after heaping victory on victory for twenty years, had perished miserably in St. Helena!
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