All 17 Uses of
console
in
War and Peace
- But, with the womanly and courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pavlovna wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak he had done of a man recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said: "Now about your family."
Chpt 1console = comfort
- Natasha began consoling her, but her face showed that she understood all the gravity of her friend's trouble.†
Chpt 1 *
- Ah, if we had not religion to console us life would be very sad.
Chpt 1console = comfort
- "But no doubt it always is and must be so!" he consoled himself.†
Chpt 3
- With this consoling thought (but yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what she would say.†
Chpt 3
- He consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity.†
Chpt 5
- Life in the regiment, during this campaign, was all the pleasanter for him, because, after his loss to Dolokhov (for which, in spite of all his family's efforts to console him, he could not forgive himself), he had made up his mind to atone for his fault by serving, not as he had done before, but really well, and by being a perfectly first-rate comrade and officer—in a word, a splendid man altogether, a thing which seemed so difficult out in the world, but so possible in the regiment.
Chpt 5console = comfort
- Sometimes he consoled himself with the thought that he was only living this life temporarily; but then he was shocked by the thought of how many, like himself, had entered that life and that Club temporarily, with all their teeth and hair, and had only left it when not a single tooth or hair remained.†
Chpt 8
- In reply Boris wrote these lines: Aliment de poison d'une ame trop sensible, Toi, sans qui le bonheur me serait impossible, Tendre melancholie, ah, viens me consoler, Viens calmer les tourments de ma sombre retraite, Et mele une douceur secrete A ces pleurs que je sens couler.†
Chpt 8
- * *Poisonous nourishment of a too sensitive soul, Thou, without whom happiness would for me be impossible, Tender melancholy, ah, come to console me, Come to calm the torments of my gloomy retreat, And mingle a secret sweetness With these tears that I feel to be flowing.†
Chpt 8
- The old valet Tikhon, with sunken, emaciated face that bore the stamp of inconsolable grief, replied: "Yes, Princess" to all Princess Mary's questions and hardly refrained from sobbing as he looked at her.†
Chpt 10
- Berg was sitting beside the countess consoling her with the respectful attention of a relative.†
Chpt 11
- "Russia and summer weather are not bound together," he thought, repeating words of Karataev's which he found strangely consoling.†
Chpt 13
- And now during these last three weeks of the march he had learned still another new, consolatory truth—that nothing in this world is terrible.†
Chpt 14
- Her persevering and patient love seemed completely to surround the countess every moment, not explaining or consoling, but recalling her to life.†
Chpt 15
- To console Pierre for these losses the head steward gave him an estimate showing that despite these losses his income would not be diminished but would even be increased if he refused to pay his wife's debts which he was under no obligation to meet, and did not rebuild his Moscow house and the country house on his Moscow estate, which had cost him eighty thousand rubles a year and brought in nothing.†
Chpt 15
- Natasha was sad and irritable all that time, especially when her mother, her brother, Sonya, or Countess Mary in their efforts to console her tried to excuse Pierre and suggested reasons for his delay in returning.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(console as in: console her grief) to comfort (emotionally)