Consoling

Examples

• Consoling her, my own sorrows were assuaged; my sincerity won her entire conviction. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Rawdon had stolen off though, to look after his son and heir; and came back to the company when he found that honest Dolly was consoling the child. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It's so consoling! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet, and therefore, instead of making any answer, she went on as before. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It would be more consoling if others wanted to have it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was very consoling to Birkin, to think this. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was consoling that he should know she had some relations for whom there was no need to blush. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Meyler, as I had been informed, while at Paris was consoling himself with a Mrs. Stonyer, as she was called, because she lived with Mr. Stonyer. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I was aroused from these consoling reflections by the voice of Mr. Bruff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Nor was Darcy's vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The only thing she did well, was what she did out of unconscious piety, the silent comforting and consoling of her father. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It is not very consoling to have one's own likeness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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