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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)
  • 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)
  • Every day, more and more people had reason to seek solace inside Halliday and Morrow's virtual utopia.   (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)
  • May was my only solace.†   (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)
  • The only solace I find is in knowing that I walk the same ground that soaked up their blood.†   (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)
  • I could take solace in their presence or I could fall down in a heap, lamenting what I'd lost.†   (source)
  • I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog.†   (source)
  • Yet the thought of this eventual demise provides no sense of victory, no solace.†   (source)
  • He was welcome to whatever solace he might find between battles.†   (source)
  • I return to my room feeling both solaced and saddened.†   (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)
  • The archer dude, Will Solace, seemed pretty cool.†   (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)
  • Saphira flew close by, her mind linked with his for solace and strength.†   (source)
  • I don't have the solace of daily conversation.†   (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)
  • The only solace, the only hope I had left, was knowing that I would see Edward soon.†   (source)
  • My only solace on that rueful occasion was that the instructors walked on every single one of us that day.†   (source)
  • Seeing my camera made the past six months come rushing back: the solace I'd sought in the darkroom.†   (source)
  • The landscape outside his windows gave him little solace.†   (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)
  • Seriously, you can find a great deal of long-range solace in the idea of an afterlife.†   (source)
  • But the kids are a spectacular dream fulfilled, and there's great solace in that for both of us.†   (source)
  • I was extremely difficult to live with, and Tom sought solace elsewhere.†   (source)
  • It was my only solace.†   (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)
  • Let us hope she finds solace in such things; she'll have little else.†   (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)
  • After the war he had tried to feel God, to take solace in Him.†   (source)
  • And the only solace then is the father coming back in, making himself at home.†   (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)
  • Regardless of what his private anxieties might be, she could not believe that Mr. Clutter was finding secret solace in tobacco.†   (source)
  • Ervin knew the network hadn't come to him for his expertise-only for solace.†   (source)
  • Each night I took solace in the pills he provided.†   (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)
  • But you will find no solace in doing so.†   (source)
  • Daldoum continued to work, but his demeanor offered little solace to his children.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Though the answers to this question vary, they share a common result: solace.†   (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)
  • The sweet melody offers familiarity, and there's solace in that.†   (source)
  • Among the heroes were the men sent to give solace.†   (source)
  • It was when you were gone I knew, when all those years passed and they could offer me no comfort, no solace.†   (source)
  • He drew solace and sedation from her nearness.†   (source)
  • None of us were any solace.†   (source)
  • After the unsettling summer, he thought the familiar terrain of school would offer some respite and maybe solace to his bruised ego.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be no one to turn to for solace.†   (source)
  • Perhaps their financial mishap has driven them to seek solace in alcohol and daytime television.†   (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)
  • She should have done so already, but found solace in even a pitiful furball's worth of companionship.†   (source)
  • Solace.†   (source)
  • And as the clinics took off and he traveled month after month around the country, he found some solace this way.†   (source)
  • "I want a long, easy solace," she told the gitanas.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • His only solace was reading The Catcher in the Rye.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • We have found solace in each other.†   (source)
  • A lost father in his solace.†   (source)
  • In the end, I have learned I must make whatever peace and solace of my own.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The woman was elderly, a stranger, but the word had lodged within him, had given him solace.†   (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)
  • "You will pay solace?" the girl said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I had a vague memory of a woman, an alt-country singer named Naomi Solace, whom I'd met in Austin.†   (source)
  • Bellamy's only solace was in knowing Langdon and Katherine were whisking the pyramid off to safety.†   (source)
  • I explored religions and serious drinking, finding more hope of lasting solace in the latter.†   (source)
  • Before I could start sobbing, Will Solace stepped into the light of the hearth.†   (source)
  • Strangely, thinking now of that experiment …. was bringing her an unexpected solace.†   (source)
  • Back and forth, a crazy schizoid solace they'd create.†   (source)
  • Will Solace tended to Sherman Yang's head injuries.†   (source)
  • Together they took solace in attending to Buckley.†   (source)
  • As an afterthought, I took a few books from Will Solace's bookshelf.†   (source)
  • Will Solace and I spent the evening caring for the wounded.†   (source)
  • I want her to leave now, leave us within the solace of silence.†   (source)
  • Or a solace, maybe, an easing of some perennial clutch or grab, some taunt of malehood.†   (source)
  • Will Solace, head counselor for the Apollo cabin, put his hand gently on Clarisse's wrist.†   (source)
  • The demon was slain, but the fact offered little solace.†   (source)
  • The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.†   (source)
  • School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.†   (source)
  • If he cannot, then let him seek the solace of the everlasting grave.†   (source)
  • Small wonder if he seeks solace in his books.†   (source)
  • If it gives you any solace, Horpe and Massey are doomed to disappointment.†   (source)
  • Even in their armor, the Romans were starting to gain on Solace.†   (source)
  • Your company would be such sweet solace.†   (source)
  • I wanted to give her comfort and solace.†   (source)
  • For a time I tried to provide comfort and solace as I thought a wife should.†   (source)
  • I saw Mom alone and rushed over to her, hoping for some solace.†   (source)
  • Whatever brought you solace we would have applauded.†   (source)
  • But you will find no solace in doing so.†   (source)
  • But there's more solace in the pipe and what goes inside it.†   (source)
  • If it gives you any solace, I do not intend that you ever wed Joffrey.†   (source)
  • 'They still bring solace and comfort to the families that receive them, don't they?†   (source)
  • There is no solace among them, only a past infected with disillusion.†   (source)
  • I forget why it is I do such things, why they give me interest or solace or pleasure.†   (source)
  • They bring solace to the living and peace to the dead.†   (source)
  • It gave him dark solace, planning the details of his interment.†   (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)
  • Let her find some solace here if she can.†   (source)
  • A sleep as heavy as death will come over my limbs, and I won't be able to solace you.†   (source)
  • As soul food and comfort food and health food, as a cuisine of both solace and celebration.†   (source)
  • The man was a criminal, if that gives you any solace.†   (source)
  • Then he walked back across the green, where Will Solace was waiting.†   (source)
  • No, he had to remind himself, she will not look for solace from a Lannister.†   (source)
  • With your brothers dead and you taken by the wolves, your sister was his solace.†   (source)
  • By now, Will Solace realized just how creepy and revolting Nico di Angelo was.†   (source)
  • My only solace was that three of them died laughing.†   (source)
  • The taste was sweet solace on his tongue, so he lit a candle and poured himself another.†   (source)
  • No doubt Will Solace thought Nico was a monster now, for letting Octavian kill himself.†   (source)
  • Will Solace made a sound like he'd been punched.†   (source)
  • Will Solace shoved Nico out of the way and got in Octavian's face.†   (source)
  • "Next time I'll just let them run you down, Solace."†   (source)
  • Nico WASN'T SURE whether to kick himself or Will Solace.†   (source)
  • Will Solace stood in the doorway of the Apollo cabin, a stern look on his face.†   (source)
  • At one point, Will Solace, the lead camper for Apollo, ran up to Nico and said something in his ear.†   (source)
  • He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the battle, Will Solace ran up to him and said one word in his ear: "Octavian."†   (source)
  • Will Solace hadn't spoken with Nico since the encounter at the onager.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Tell her I took solace only in hope.†   (source)
  • It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light.†   (source)
  • May your many-eyed descendants ever flourish and your human friends find solace for the loss they have sustained.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Will Solace patted Leo's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Will Solace cleared his throat.†   (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 far outshone me, but that didn't bother me as much as my failures with archery and music had.†   (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)
  • 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 grabbed Will Solace from the Apollo cabin and told the rest of his siblings to keep searching for Michael Yew.†   (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)
  • I don't want to see her crumple up like that, because I have nothing to offer her in the way of solace.†   (source)
  • Although her marriage had been troubled for years, it wasn't simply that she was seeking solace elsewhere.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Tyrion took solace from that.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • However, I solaced myself with the thought that their panic might have resulted from unfamiliarity with the spectacle of a white man, slightly pink, and clad only in boots and binoculars, racing madly across the landscape.†   (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)
  • He took his own solace from the occasional pickup games of soccer that he played on weekends and after school.†   (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)
  • He shoved Sam aside and went from the cabin to find some solace in a cup of firewine and the rough brotherhood of the oars.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I'd been wrong on every count, including the last one, because during those long days I saw the solace that the other women brought to Snow Flower.†   (source)
  • As if she's heard my thoughts, her eyes meet mine. that familiar pale blue offering me solace, even as she lifts the ax.†   (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)
  • She met a sculptor with a face full of burst capillaries, English, his wife was dying, and she had a long talk with him, a completely intense conversation about the way in which their work exposed them, layer by layer, as inadequate, and they took solace one from the other, seeing how such things can be shared no matter how seemingly unique.†   (source)
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