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  • Confronted by a situation which they had never faced before, and having no memories from which to find either solace or wisdom, they would not know what to do and would seek his advice.   (source)
  • They went one at a time and touched their hands to her chest, wanting to grab on to the solace in her heart.   (source)
  • We took solace in this — in our secrecy, our knowledge of hidden pathways, our belief that we could not be seen.   (source)
  • The sight provided him some solace, though he couldn't have said why.   (source)
  • Until we imagine that these carefully preserved possessions might give us genuine solace in the face of a lost companion.   (source)
  • In moments such as those he took solace in the Torah that he always carried, and read the verses he'd learned long ago for his bar mitzvah.   (source)
  • For people who are forced for whole hours, and even days, to think by routine in one direction, such free private thinking affords a kind of comfort, an agreeable solace.   (source)
  • And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House?   (source)
  • But scenery without solace is meaningless.†   (source)
  • The only solace I find is in knowing that I walk the same ground that soaked up their blood.†   (source)
  • Deprived of love since the tragic demise of his parents, fourteen-year-old Harry Potter thought he had found solace in his steady girlfriend at Hogwarts, Muggle-born Hermione Granger.†   (source)
  • May was my only solace.†   (source)
  • After the war he had tried to feel God, to take solace in Him.†   (source)
  • Ervin knew the network hadn't come to him for his expertise-only for solace.†   (source)
  • He was welcome to whatever solace he might find between battles.†   (source)
  • His only solace was in knowing his attacker would never obtain what he had come for.†   (source)
  • Not rely on absolutely, that was obliterated as a possibility, just rely on a little, some solace, something surviving in the ruins.†   (source)
  • The archer dude, Will Solace, seemed pretty cool.†   (source)
  • I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog.†   (source)
  • But I found a solace in the massive, opulent, pre-war gloom, which was easy to retreat into if you didn't feel like talking or being stared at.†   (source)
  • As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances.†   (source)
  • Saphira flew close by, her mind linked with his for solace and strength.†   (source)
  • The Consul thought about the sharp pleasure of the hunt and the equally sharp solace of solitude: solitude he had earned through the pain and nightmare he had already suffered on Hyperion.†   (source)
  • I talked to the steady stream of visitors who showed up to pay their respects, interviewed locals who remembered the force of the explosion, sat with a woman who had lost her daughter in a car accident and who came to the crash site to find solace in communal grief.†   (source)
  • It was my only solace.†   (source)
  • And the only solace then is the father coming back in, making himself at home.†   (source)
  • The only solace, the only hope I had left, was knowing that I would see Edward soon.†   (source)
  • Yet the thought of this eventual demise provides no sense of victory, no solace.†   (source)
  • But the kids are a spectacular dream fulfilled, and there's great solace in that for both of us.†   (source)
  • Anthony Burgess has a novel about the Russian winter defeating the French emperor, Napoleon Symphony (1974), in which he brings to life, better than anyone, that geography and that weather: the vastness of it, the emptiness, the hostility to the invading (and then, retreating) troops, the total absence of any possibility of comfort or safety or solace.†   (source)
  • The landscape outside his windows gave him little solace.†   (source)
  • I don't have the solace of daily conversation.†   (source)
  • It was when you were gone I knew, when all those years passed and they could offer me no comfort, no solace.†   (source)
  • I was extremely difficult to live with, and Tom sought solace elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Seeing my camera made the past six months come rushing back: the solace I'd sought in the darkroom.†   (source)
  • My only solace on that rueful occasion was that the instructors walked on every single one of us that day.†   (source)
  • Daldoum continued to work, but his demeanor offered little solace to his children.†   (source)
  • They began to see each other with less frequency as she widened her horizons and he exploited his, trying to find solace in other hearts for his pain, and at last, with no sorrow, they forgot each other.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be no one to turn to for solace.†   (source)
  • Let us hope she finds solace in such things; she'll have little else.†   (source)
  • I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down in a heap, lamenting what I'd lost.†   (source)
  • Each had begun at moments when she thought the roar of silence in her house would drive her mad, when the mysterious universe of another presence, any presence, had seemed to her like solace.†   (source)
  • Seriously, you can find a great deal of long-range solace in the idea of an afterlife.†   (source)
  • And as the clinics took off and he traveled month after month around the country, he found some solace this way.†   (source)
  • Though the answers to this question vary, they share a common result: solace.†   (source)
  • The sweet melody offers familiarity, and there's solace in that.†   (source)
  • Perhaps their financial mishap has driven them to seek solace in alcohol and daytime television.†   (source)
  • Regardless of what his private anxieties might be, she could not believe that Mr. Clutter was finding secret solace in tobacco.†   (source)
  • After the unsettling summer, he thought the familiar terrain of school would offer some respite and maybe solace to his bruised ego.†   (source)
  • Kate rocked him gently, the way she had rocked the children on the bus, crooning softly, a song without a tune, words without meaning, but sounds to bring him comfort and solace.†   (source)
  • I return to my room feeling both solaced and saddened.†   (source)
  • He drew solace and sedation from her nearness.†   (source)
  • Each night I took solace in the pills he provided.†   (source)
  • The demon was slain, but the fact offered little solace.†   (source)
  • Some were from my closest friends, some were from family, and some were from people I had never met, friends of friends who had heard about me and taken the time to offer some solace with pen and paper to a total stranger.†   (source)
  • Although her marriage had been troubled for years, it wasn't simply that she was seeking solace elsewhere.†   (source)
  • In those days when it was fashionable to court across the river, Jem was so helplessly in love with a girl from Abbott County he seriously considered spending his senior year at Abbottsville High, but was discouraged by Atticus, who put his foot down and solaced Jem by advancing him sufficient funds to purchase a Model-A coupe.†   (source)
  • She should have done so already, but found solace in even a pitiful furball's worth of companionship.†   (source)
  • Solace.†   (source)
  • Among the heroes were the men sent to give solace.†   (source)
  • But you will find no solace in doing so.†   (source)
  • We have found solace in each other.†   (source)
  • I took solace in the memory of Autshumao, for he is reputed to be the first and only man to ever escape from Robben Island, and he did so by rowing to the mainland in a small boat.†   (source)
  • My only solace came from the fact that if I had tipped my hand back then, we wouldn't have gotten together with Uncle Press, who was now helping us make our escape.†   (source)
  • "I want a long, easy solace," she told the gitanas.†   (source)
  • We must struggle in our brief existence to find some transcendent meaning during reoccurring heart-break and disappointment and so find solace in the knowledge that our ancestors have all gone through this before.†   (source)
  • None of us were any solace.†   (source)
  • His only solace was reading The Catcher in the Rye.†   (source)
  • "You will pay solace?" the girl said.†   (source)
  • Denied the pacifying vista that had drawn him to the shore, Joe found some solace in the surging tide that pressed against his legs and in the low, dumb grumble of the great watery machine.†   (source)
  • It was a kiss meant to give solace, to say everything there was no time to say.†   (source)
  • A lost father in his solace.†   (source)
  • And I am further convinced that if our white brothers dismiss as "rabble rousers" and "outside agitators" those of us who employ nonviolent direct action, and if they refuse to support our nonviolent efforts, millions of Negroes will, out of frustration and despair, seek solace and security in black nationalist ideologies—a development that would inevitably lead to a frightening racial nightmare.†   (source)
  • Booth takes solace in the 146,000 Confederate troops spread out from North Carolina to Texas that have refused to lay down their weapons.†   (source)
  • In the end, I have learned I must make whatever peace and solace of my own.†   (source)
  • The woman was elderly, a stranger, but the word had lodged within him, had given him solace.†   (source)
  • People said he did it because he wanted his children to be one cut above the rest; perhaps so, but I am certain that he also knew that it would be a solace to me in affliction, a joy amid tranquillity.†   (source)
  • In a school where your only solace comes from the support and friendship of your classmates, the solitude of Bobby Bentley became awe-inspiring, mythic, and unbearable.†   (source)
  • To tell the truth, I was in no fit mental state to do anything except hurry home to Mike's and seek solace for my tattered nerves and frayed vanity in the bottom of a jar of wolf-juice.†   (source)
  • I was sickened, nearly broken up by the awful tale—so much so that I abandoned for the rest of the day any idea of work, and recklessly sought a kind of solace in the beer I had stored in the refrigerator.†   (source)
  • We solace ourselves with that idea of the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves.†   (source)
  • Throughout these days Mary had, during these breathing spells, drawn a kind of solace from the recurrent thought: at least I am enduring it.†   (source)
  • Bellamy's only solace was in knowing Langdon and Katherine were whisking the pyramid off to safety.†   (source)
  • A sleep as heavy as death will come over my limbs, and I won't be able to solace you.†   (source)
  • Back and forth, a crazy schizoid solace they'd create.†   (source)
  • Will Solace and I spent the evening caring for the wounded.†   (source)
  • I saw Mom alone and rushed over to her, hoping for some solace.†   (source)
  • Strangely, thinking now of that experiment ....was bringing her an unexpected solace.†   (source)
  • I explored religions and serious drinking, finding more hope of lasting solace in the latter.†   (source)
  • Will Solace and the other Apollo campers scrambled around, caring for the wounded.†   (source)
  • I had more time to spend with Ultima, and in her company I found a great deal of solace and peace.†   (source)
  • As an afterthought, I took a few books from Will Solace's bookshelf.†   (source)
  • Together they took solace in attending to Buckley.†   (source)
  • Before I could start sobbing, Will Solace stepped into the light of the hearth.†   (source)
  • Will Solace tended to Sherman Yang's head injuries.†   (source)
  • I want her to leave now, leave us within the solace of silence.†   (source)
  • If it gives you any solace, Horpe and Massey are doomed to disappointment.†   (source)
  • If he cannot, then let him seek the solace of the everlasting grave.†   (source)
  • The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.†   (source)
  • Small wonder if he seeks solace in his books.†   (source)
  • School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.†   (source)
  • Will Solace, head counselor for the Apollo cabin, put his hand gently on Clarisse's wrist.†   (source)
  • Or a solace, maybe, an easing of some perennial clutch or grab, some taunt of malehood.†   (source)
  • But you will find no solace in doing so.†   (source)
  • I wanted to give her comfort and solace.†   (source)
  • No, he had to remind himself, she will not look for solace from a Lannister.†   (source)
  • I forget why it is I do such things, why they give me interest or solace or pleasure.†   (source)
  • It gave him dark solace, planning the details of his interment.†   (source)
  • Whatever brought you solace we would have applauded.†   (source)
  • And Will Solace ...Nico revised his impression of the son of Apollo.†   (source)
  • With your brothers dead and you taken by the wolves, your sister was his solace.†   (source)
  • But there's more solace in the pipe and what goes inside it.†   (source)
  • They bring solace to the living and peace to the dead.†   (source)
  • 'They still bring solace and comfort to the families that receive them, don't they?†   (source)
  • For a time I tried to provide comfort and solace as I thought a wife should.†   (source)
  • The taste was sweet solace on his tongue, so he lit a candle and poured himself another.†   (source)
  • There is no solace among them, only a past infected with disillusion.†   (source)
  • As soul food and comfort food and health food, as a cuisine of both solace and celebration.†   (source)
  • Will Solace stood in the doorway of the Apollo cabin, a stern look on his face.†   (source)
  • My only solace was that three of them died laughing.†   (source)
  • that familiar pale blue offering me solace, even as she lifts the ax.†   (source)
  • If it gives you any solace, I do not intend that you ever wed Joffrey.†   (source)
  • The man was a criminal, if that gives you any solace.†   (source)
  • Let her find some solace here if she can.†   (source)
  • He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace.†   (source)
  • Your company would be such sweet solace.†   (source)
  • Will Solace hadn't spoken with Nico since the encounter at the onager.†   (source)
  • Then he walked back across the green, where Will Solace was waiting.†   (source)
  • Will Solace made a sound like he'd been punched.†   (source)
  • Even in their armor, the Romans were starting to gain on Solace.†   (source)
  • Next time I'll just let them run you down, Solace.†   (source)
  • Will Solace shoved Nico out of the way and got in Octavian's face.†   (source)
  • By now, Will Solace realized just how creepy and revolting Nico di Angelo was.†   (source)
  • No doubt Will Solace thought Nico was a monster now, for letting Octavian kill himself.†   (source)
  • Nico WASN'T SURE whether to kick himself or Will Solace.†   (source)
  • At one point, Will Solace, the lead camper for Apollo, ran up to Nico and said something in his ear.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the battle, Will Solace ran up to him and said one word in his ear: "Octavian."†   (source)
  • Will Solace was more like a lanky cat stretched out in the sunshine.†   (source)
  • He spun, his sword instantly in his hand, and almost decapitated Will Solace.†   (source)
  • I knew what he was asking: Was I the kind of girl who aimed to find solace or cause a stir with no in between?†   (source)
  • I grabbed Will Solace from the Apollo cabin and told the rest of his siblings to keep searching for Michael Yew.†   (source)
  • The calmness of his eyes, the smile resting easily on his lips, the way his hair curled around his ears ...I had a vague memory of a woman, an alt-country singer named Naomi Solace, whom I'd met in Austin.†   (source)
  • During that long night, he clung to his memories of Katrina, drawing solace from them when he grew weary and hope threatened to desert him.†   (source)
  • Tell her I took solace only in hope.†   (source)
  • May your many-eyed descendants ever flourish and your human friends find solace for the loss they have sustained.†   (source)
  • It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light.†   (source)
  • I'm terribly sad about Paul and Clara's choice, but they're grown now, and with everything that's happening, I hope you can understand that it does bring me some solace to think my child will be able to live his life free from abuse.†   (source)
  • Leo remembered what Will Solace had told him: No one should go in the woods alone, definitely not unarmed.†   (source)
  • At times his solace was the certainty that during the intoxication of her wedding celebration, even during the feverish nights of her honeymoon, Fermina Daza would suffer one moment, one at least but one in any event, when the phantom of the sweetheart she had scorned, humiliated, and insulted would appear in her thoughts, and all her happiness would be destroyed.†   (source)
  • It provides no solace at all.†   (source)
  • He took his own solace from the occasional pickup games of soccer that he played on weekends and after school.†   (source)
  • This fact gave him no solace, for he saw immediately that the same phenomenon that had diminished nearly every one of his works—Central Park, Biltmore, the world's fair, and so many others—had occurred yet again.†   (source)
  • Kassad knew that in military terms little real damage had been done, but this was small solace to the occasional French soldier with ten inches of arrow through his eye, or to the scores of horses leaping, tumbling, and crashing into one another while their riders struggled to remove wooden shafts from the creatures" backs and flanks.†   (source)
  • "Hold on," Will Solace protested.†   (source)
  • Will Solace exhaled with relief.†   (source)
  • I was bent on it now, possessed only of some vague notion that in works of art I could find some solace while bringing nothing of death to what was inanimate and yet magnificently possessed of the spirit of life itself.†   (source)
  • He wandered around, keeping a good distance from his neighbors and wanting so much to take solace in the love of cats and dogs.†   (source)
  • I wondered vaguely, as the hours passed, as the smoke of the cafe grew thicker and the faded curtain of the little lamplit stage rose and fell, and robust women sang there, the light glittering on their paste jewels, their rich, soft voices often plaintive, exquisitely sad-I wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace.†   (source)
  • Travis Stoll from Hermes was holding a lighter under a Ping-Pong ball to see if it would burn, and Will Solace from Apollo was absently wrapping and unwrapping an Ace bandage around his wrist.†   (source)
  • Will Solace patted Leo's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Will Solace far outshone me, but that didn't bother me as much as my failures with archery and music had.†   (source)
  • Will Solace cleared his throat.†   (source)
  • Will Solace trudged ahead.†   (source)
  • She jabbed a thumb at Will Solace.†   (source)
  • "You're Will Solace," I said.†   (source)
  • Will Solace sighed.†   (source)
  • I told her that I had felt her there with me in the courtroom and that I hoped she could take some solace in this.†   (source)
  • There is a certain grim satis faction to be derived from struggling upwards, however slowly; but the bulk of one's time is necessarily spent in the extreme squalor of a high camp, when even this solace is lacking.†   (source)
  • He'd been laid off at the plant two months earlier and had been spending most nights there, an angry man looking for pity and solace in the company of alcoholics.†   (source)
  • Our members are wanderers upon this earth—no field office, no true home save Rowan, and it may be long years before one glimpses the solace of its gates.†   (source)
  • More than anything, though, I wished I'd walked into my mother's open arms the few times she'd tried to pull me close, and pressed my face to her chest, letting my sad heart find solace there.†   (source)
  • I wanted to tellhim to cut it out, that we all had our problems, that I was the last person he should come looking to for solace.†   (source)
  • He took solace in the fact that his identity was not immutable; he could improve himself if he wished.†   (source)
  • It gave solace to the third daughter, who was always so tentative and terrified and had such troubles with men.†   (source)
  • Catelyn could not say if Lord Hoster knew that she was there, or if her presence brought him any comfort, but it gave her solace to be with him.†   (source)
  • Tyrion took solace from that.†   (source)
  • I don't want to see her crumple up like that, because I have nothing to offer her in the way of solace.†   (source)
  • The solace and comfort I feel when I pick up my needle and thread clearly exceeds the mere rescue of a piece of clothing.†   (source)
  • Now I saw in my dream that by this time the pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground and entering into the country ofBeulah, whose air was very sweet and pleasant; the way lying directly through it, they solaced themselves there for a season.†   (source)
  • The coverage offered solace—temporary solace, as it proved—to Hank Hansen's grieving mother, Mrs. Joseph Evelley.†   (source)
  • It is eerie that Abraham Lincoln found much solace in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, given that the two great men met their ends in the same way.†   (source)
  • She'd never gone back, but now she found herself suddenly, fiercely grateful for whatever solace her sister had gathered, for whatever she'd found in that quiet church that Norah hadn't seen.†   (source)
  • We took solace in each other's company, and spent those early weeks speculating on why we had been transferred.†   (source)
  • Have you ever,' he inquired hesitantly of Yossarian that day in his tent as Yossarian sat holding in both hands the warm bottle of Coca-Cola with which the chaplain had been able to solace him, 'been in a situation which you felt you had been in before, even though you knew you were experiencing it for the first time?†   (source)
  • The thought that Mahtob was with Mostafa and Malouk offered a faint bit of comfort, but it was small solace for the ache in my heart.†   (source)
  • Even her own aunt, the only one among us who made a living and survived on her wits, would not offer solace.†   (source)
  • Thousands of families would not have the solace of a body to bid farewell: just the abstract information that the Marine had "died in the performance of his duty" and was buried in a plot, aligned in a row with numbers on his grave.†   (source)
  • He was genuinely grateful and relieved, and he bowed almost wistfully before me, making me feel as though I had indeed come to his aid, that I had helped save him from whatever fate he supposed would befall him were he to visit the ones delivered for our final solace and pleasure.†   (source)
  • I take some small solace in knowing that he died a cruel death at the hands of the monster that he himself begot.†   (source)
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