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Definition
comfort felt or given during a time of disappointment or misery
- "I dare say you are clever, though," continued Bessie, by way of solace.Chapter 10 (89% in)
- A little solace came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ration of bread — a whole, instead of a half, slice — with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: it was the hebdomadal treat to which we all looked forward from Sabbath to Sabbath.Chapter 7 (15% in)
- Miss Temple, through all changes, had thus far continued superintendent of the seminary: to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.Chapter 10 (12% in)
- She would thus descend to the kitchen once a day, eat her dinner, smoke a moderate pipe on the hearth, and go back, carrying her pot of porter with her, for her private solace, in her own gloomy, upper haunt.Chapter 17 (13% in)
- The dowagers Ingram and Lynn sought solace in a quiet game at cards.Chapter 18 (55% in)
- Men and women die; philosophers falter in wisdom, and Christians in goodness: if any one you know has suffered and erred, let him look higher than his equals for strength to amend and solace to heal.Chapter 20 (94% in)
- Will I not guard, and cherish, and solace her?Chapter 23 (89% in)
- Such is the sole conjugal embrace I am ever to know — such are the endearments which are to solace my leisure hours!Chapter 26 (70% in)
- God keep you from harm and wrong — direct you, solace you — reward you well for your past kindness to me.Chapter 27 (87% in)
- I had no solace from self— approbation: none even from self-respect.Chapter 27 (97% in)
- I have brought you a book for evening solace," and he laid on the table a new publication — a poem: one of those genuine productions so often vouchsafed to the fortunate public of those days — the golden age of modern literature.Chapter 32 (46% in)
- You too have principle and mind: your tastes and habits resemble Diana's and Mary's; your presence is always agreeable to me; in your conversation I have already for some time found a salutary solace.Chapter 33 (95% in)
There are no more uses of "solace" in Jane Eyre.
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