Thomas Browne, and other renowned old authors, from whom I now derive so much pleasure and solacement. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
"Patience shall peradventure lead to solacement," quoth they; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
It must have been a great solacement to Dante, and was, as we can see. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
He has secret solacement in a latent belief that he himself is an exception. From Wordnik.com. [Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher] Reference
What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement?. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
Wherefore, in reverence of Him unto whom all things live and for our own solacement, Filomena. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
You cannot escape from it; you can but change your place in it without solacement except one moment's. From Wordnik.com. [The Map of Life Conduct and Character] Reference
Many sad days were destined to pass over Israel before that future with its solacement of humor dawned. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Literature and Other Essays] Reference
Add to my passion, love of her, each night; and, solacement Of loves, the Resurrection be thy day of rendezvous!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
Accordingly, seeing herself unjustly suspected of her husband, she determined, for her own solacement, to find a means. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
He was, as Mr. Carlyle puts it, "gluttonously fond of whatever would yield him a little solacement, were it only of a stomachic character.". From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Johnson] Reference
Time will not stop, neither can he, a Son of Time; wild passions without solacement, wild faculties without employment, ever vex and agitate him. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
It is the sure symptom of Social Unrest: in such way, most infallibly of all, does Social Unrest exhibit itself; find solacement, and also nutriment. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
That he was a wine-bibler and gross liver; gluttonously fond of whatever would yield him a little solacement, were it only of a stomachic character, is undeniable enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III] Reference
Hilary and the brethren bowed low at these gracious words, and thought within themselves: Of a truth this may be a woman, but she is no less an Angel for our strength and solacement. From Wordnik.com. [A Child's Book of Saints] Reference
He was, naturally enough, exceedingly put out, and vexed; and unhappily betook himself to a neighbouring tavern for 'spirituous' solacement -- a very rare thing, let me add, for him to do. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852] Reference
I undertake to do for you; for that, like as I am disposed to do that which is to be your weal and your solacement, even so can you do that which will be the saving and assainment of my life. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
All summer last, my one solacement in the form of work was writing, and sorting of old documents and recollections; summoning out again into clearness old scenes that had now closed on me without return. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.] Reference
Wherefore, I entreat thee, as most I may, if it come to pass that I die, that thou take my goods and her into thy charge and do with them and her that which thou deemest may be for the solacement of my soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
The reader sighed, yet not without a reflex solacement: O, that I too had lived in those times, had never known these logic-cobwebs, this doubt, this sickliness; and been and felt myself alive among men alive!. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 25-49] Reference
The Abbé entered from Lotharios chamber; beckoned Jarno to go in instead of him; and said to Wilhelm: The Baron bids me ask you to remain with us a day or two, to share his hospitality, and, in the present circumstances, contribute to his solacement. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter II. Book VII] Reference
She stood stunned and speechless a moment; then she remembered, with such solacement as the thought could furnish, that by another clear promise made by Cauchon himself -- she would at least be the Church's captive, and have women about her in place of a brutal foreign soldiery. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2] Reference
Who else would hinder poor Loque and Graille, now grown so old, and fallen into such unexpected circumstances, when gossip itself turning only on terrors and horrors is no longer pleasant to the mind, and you cannot get so much as an orthodox confessor in peace, -- from going what way soever the hope of any solacement might lead them?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
How true it is that folly bringeth many an one from fair estate unto misery is seen by multitude of examples, with the recounting whereof we have no present concern, considering that a thousand instances thereof do every day manifestly appear to us; but that good sense is a cause of solacement I will, as I promised, briefly show you by a little story. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
As long as we remain within the realm of imagination, it may be argued, we may find in our poet's great sayings both solacement and strength, both rest and an impulse towards higher moral endeavour; but if we seek to treat them as theories of facts, and turn upon them the light of the understanding, will they not inevitably prove to be hallucinations?. From Wordnik.com. [Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher] Reference
Nor should this that I ask be grievous to you to do; nay, you should rather desire it, for that, what while Ferondo sojourneth in purgatory, I will bear you company by night and render you that solacement which he should give you; nor shall any ever come to know of this, for that every one believeth of me that, and more than that, which you but now believed of me. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
“gluttonously fond of whatever would yield him a little solacement, were it only of a stomachic character.”. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Johnson]
She had a little chapel, and in it found solacement for much trouble. ". From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
Gave for his solacement. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
Afresh to view it for my solacement. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
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