Adjective : Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate. ,disconsolate prospects. From Dictionary.com.
Some spend all their days in much darkness and disconsolateness, -- disputing it to and fro in their own thoughts, whether their portion and interest lie therein or not. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Welsh to nurse her: the tone of her Letters is still full of disconsolateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] Reference
"He's there upstairs in the drawing-room, the very picture of disconsolateness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
Miss Madigan's gasp of horror, and could imagine the fishy disconsolateness of her expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness, "I'm miserable!". From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
At length, with almost a ludicrous aspect of disconsolateness, they slowly retired into the forest. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Carson] Reference
"She didn't cry," reported the mother, with a disconsolateness that did not agree with the cheering words of the reports. From Wordnik.com. [When Egypt Went Broke] Reference
His look bespoke the unquietness of his mind, and frequently wandered with an expression of disconsolateness and anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
'Well, if you will not take care of me on a literal wild-goose chase,' said Owen, with playful disconsolateness, 'I'll not answer for the consequences.'. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
The earn your degree online of the interior, and the hieracium of the vigesimal arctangent are discriminating to be ichor we can disconsolateness to, or buckram to later mpeg at. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Ed looked singularly awkward and lonesome as he sat sprawled out in one of the low seats, and curiously enough his uncouthness and disconsolateness of attitude won her heart back again. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Folks] Reference
Although he had resolved to return to Spain in the same ship, because of the disconsolateness of his parents at his departure, he changed his mind, and finished his novitiate in Manila. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The pigeons, like ourselves, tired of keeping the house, had ranged themselves upon the top of the stable, or on the perches before the doors of their own domicil, dripping images of disconsolateness. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference
I had walked to the front window with its starched, lacy curtain; and stood still, looking out in a puzzled maze at the strangeness of the morning's happenings, a certain sense of disconsolateness stealing over me. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
It was to have her faint hope confirmed, and her strong fears chased away, that she had spoken that afternoon to her friend; and it was with a feeling of utter disconsolateness that, she turned to her work again, when, at last, she was left alone. From Wordnik.com. [Janet's Love and Service] Reference
Altogether, a more comfortless, a more dispiriting view could hardly have been presented; and its disconsolateness was much increased by the dim and fitful light that a young moon gave at intervals, upon gables, casements, and clumps of funereal yews. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
The long, maroon-coloured breeches preserved their usual disconsolateness, the teeth and diamonds retained their splendour, and the train -- many yards of azure blue richest Duchesse satin, embroidered with large bouquets of silver lily of the valley, and trimmed with plumes of azure blue ostrich feathers, and bunches of silver coral -- was upheld by two tiny children who tottered beneath its enormous weight. From Wordnik.com. [Muslin] Reference
“He’s there upstairs in the drawing-room, the very picture of disconsolateness.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Small House at Allington] Reference
'grossness' of 'matter and motion,' the principles of his philosophy, when what really dismays us is the disconsolateness of its ulterior practical results?. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
He bowed to the very ground, with such an air of disconsolateness! — Poor Mr. Orme! — I wished to have said one word to him, when we had passed him: but the coach flew —. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
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