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It is little consolation to know that the kid who beat up my son has been caught, nothing will really happen to him, and he won't even have to apologize.
She lost the tournament in the final round, but she won a new tennis racquet as a consolation prize.
A Swiss proverb notes that great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying.
Berthe Morisot once observed that the love of nature is consolation against failure.
It is a consolation that no one was killed.
On all occasions of anxiety which were multiplied upon him, by reason of his exquisite sensibility, he longed for the consolation her society used to afford him; and although his susceptibility to the action of external causes, would not allow him to remain in continued and unalterable gloom and melancholy, yet in solitude, and on the slightest accident, his distress returned, and he despaired of the possibility of ever retrieving his lost happiness.
The very tones of the captain’s voice seemed to bring peace and consolation to him, and he went about the house-into every room except that which was closed against him-and wandered in the garden of the roses, almost believing that the roses drooped their heads a little, in pity for his sorrow.
Briefly and jauntily, with a delightful candour which under other circumstances would have been refreshing and even amusing, Brian informed his “best friend on earth” that he was in desperate straits, and near starvation point; that he had but one thing on which to congratulate himself, and that was that he was but treading in the footsteps of many men more illustrious than he could hope to be, who had travelled the same stony road before; but that the consolation demanded a large amount of philosophy to make it effective when it was remembered that actual food was not always to be obtained; that his landlady, who was a hopeless Philistine, refused to be comforted with promises, or with the possibility of seeing herself immortalized by reason of her businesslike connection with her impecunious lodger; that things were, in a word, at their worst.
He took the letter out of his pocket and put it to his lips, for she had written it, and there was some small consolation even in that.
Had they condensed to thunder I should have been better satisfied; but it was some consolation to see them thicken so as to hide the mountain, and quench the longing with which I should have viewed its unclouded head.
There is one consolation always open, thank Heaven, for the meanest among us poor worms of earth.
Harry found some consolation in superintending some of the work for her house, and in working at a grand cabinet which he designed for her: it was to be a miracle of wood-carving; he would throw into the work all the resources of his art and all his genius.
It is a consolation for you to feel me near you.
, il ne reste plus personne maintenant, c’est une consolation pour vous de me sentir près de vous.
But if we are still quite in the dark as to the origin of the art, it may be some consolation to remember that barely thirty years ago the few rare pieces of Saracenic glass that had reached us were classed as Venetian.
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