All 11 Uses of
console
in
Anna Karenina
- If only she doesn't take it into her head to console me!" thought Dolly.†
Part 1
- But when her father left them she made ready for what was the chief thing needful—to go to Kitty and console her.†
Part 2 *
- She felt certain that her surmises were correct; that Kitty's misery, her inconsolable misery, was due precisely to the fact that Levin had made her an offer and she had refused him, and Vronsky had deceived her, and that she was fully prepared to love Levin and to detest Vronsky.†
Part 2
- She at once began talking to him with French exaggerated politeness, applauding him for having such a delightful daughter, extolling Kitty to the skies before her face, and calling her a treasure, a pearl, and a consoling angel.†
Part 2
- One consolatory reflection upon her conduct had occurred to her at the first moment of the final rupture, and when now she recalled all the past, she remembered that one reflection.†
Part 5
- "That will come," was the consoling reassurance given him by Golenishtchev, in whose view Vronsky had both talent, and what was most important, culture, giving him a wider outlook on art.†
Part 5
- Alexey Alexandrovitch listened to her now, and those expressions which had seemed to him, if not distasteful, at least exaggerated, now seemed to him natural and consolatory.†
Part 5
- She sent to ask him to come to her immediately; with a throbbing heart she awaited him, rehearsing to herself the words in which she would tell him all, and the expressions of love with which he would console her.†
Part 5
- "You needn't try to console me, mistress.†
Part 6
- He had said it without thinking, simply to console her.†
Part 7
- "Of course I don't care, but still I feel ashamed and awfully stupid," thought Levin, consoling himself with the reflection that everyone does it.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(console as in: console her grief) to comfort (emotionally)