And casting about for an excuse, he grasped at the most sovereign solace he knew of.
But only for a while: she'll get over it and solace herself with the next best thing.
But he gratefully acknowledges also another solaceof a gentler kind.
Amid the glacial atmosphere of disapproval into which marriage had thrust her, Diane found her only solace in Virginie, a devoted French servant who had formerly been her nurse, and who literally worshipped the ground she walked on.
She endeavoured to solace herself with the belief that after she had gone he would instinctively turn to June once more, and that life on the farm would probably resume the even tenor of its way.
At the same time, as Elmscott had urged, I could bring him no solace of help in the matter of his trial.
I had planned to tell Larke the true object of my coming during the hour or so we should have to wait, and to draw some solace from his companionship.
It might be stoutly questioned whether Verona held one unshriven soul, one sin unspoken, or one solace unawarded.
A splendid series of festivities were arranged at the Buen Retiro to solace and enliven her, an ingenious Florentine being requisitioned to invent novelties to attract her attention.
I do not judge them; but, if I had a hundred tongues and a clarion voice, I could not enumerate the number of patients for whom she provided solace and care.
Miss Nightingale, who as a girl was music-mad, found occasionalsolace in hearing it.
There have been many statesmen, again, and many other eminent men, who have found inspiration or support, no less than solace or pleasure, in the friendship of women.
One affectionate look from him, one fond word, would solaceevery pain, and make me wait the arrival of his father's letter with all the sanguine anticipations of youth and love.
There would not be one to solace or to encourage me!
Cannot we solace ourselves with love for each other?
Myles Cabot is not a bad match after all; and, if rank prevents him from having the princess and prevents me from having the mango, why not solace ourselves with each other?
They carried on the routine work of the office as men under sentence of death do little, ordinary things and find a solace in them.
The apartment was furnished even with elegance; a variety of books strewed the table; nothing for comfort or for solace that the care and providence of affection could dictate was omitted.
It may be some solace to think that your loved one poured out his life in a War in which high and holy principles are involved, and also that he was quick to answer the call for men.
At that time of the year the night closed in as early as seven or eight o'clock, and then in that little house among the solitary hills his disconsolate spirit would sometimes sink beyond solace into irreclaimable depths of depression.
The room itself was of so handsome a size; the platform which raised it in one part, gave it a peculiar aspect, and on this elevation he was accustomed to solace himself with his solitary music.
Man shall solace himself at his own free pleasure in the divine light, of which the fountain is in him.
You may think me hard and cruel; but be advised by me, when I tell you that the easiest way to solace one's self for a lover's loss is to install another in his place.
By the way, do you know there is lots of solace to be found in an old music book of twenty years ago?
Another plague may come amidst us; and something of a solace in so terrible a visitation would be found in your pages, by those to whom letters are a refuge and relief.
Hungry and miserable, you think to solace yourself at the dessert; but the pastry is cursed, the cake is acrid with the same plague.
One destitute child housed, taught, cared for, and tended personally, will bring more solace to a suffering heart than a dozen maintained in an asylum.
The most unhappy lad could no longer hold his cramped station in the tree and he decided to seek the canoe and find the meagre solace of a little food and water.
It did bring them a gleam of solace to imagine him hoisting sail on the Revenge and crowding out to rake the brig with his formidable broadsides.
It was a solace to talk with winsome Dorothy Stuart because hers was the bright optimism of youth and she held so exalted an opinion of Jack's strength and courage that she refused to abandon hope.
