1 He fancied that she nodded her comprehension; and with that scant solace he had to trudge off through the rain.
2 There would be solace in Fanny's presence, knowing that she and Fanny both had lost husbands in the black days of martial law.
3 I came with Gerty Farish, and promised not to let her miss the train, but I am sure she is still extracting sentimental solace from the wedding presents.
4 The inability thus to solace her outraged feelings gave her a paralyzing sense of insignificance.
5 She could not, however, deny herself the solace of taking anxious counsel with Lawrence Selden, with whom, since his return from Europe, she had renewed her old relation of cousinly confidence.
6 A cup of tea in quiet, somewhere out of the noise and ugliness, seemed for the moment the one solace she could bear.
7 But he stuck by the family nevertheless, for they reminded him of his old happiness; and when things went wrong he could solace himself with a plunge into the Socialist movement.
8 But Tom, as we see, being a poor, ignorant fellow, whose reading had been confined entirely to the New Testament, could not comfort and solace himself with views like these.
9 Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
10 The dowagers Ingram and Lynn sought solace in a quiet game at cards.
11 I had no solace from self-approbation: none even from self-respect.
12 The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.
13 One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years.
14 The day being wet, she could not divert herself with rambling about the park; so, at the conclusion of her morning studies, she resorted to the solace of the drawer.
15 He needed some solace, doling out preachments to asthmatic elders, perpetually repairing the perpetually falling steeple, by means of placards nailed to Barns.