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to comfort (emotionally)
- "It's a good thing Rachel Lynde got a calling down; she's a meddlesome old gossip," was Matthew's consolatory rejoinder.Chapter 10 — Anne's Apology (3% in)
- Then she returned to the house, not a little consoled for the time being by this romantic parting.Chapter 17 — A New Interest in Life (23% in)
- Anne had sat among the stumps and wept, not without an eye to the romance of it; but she was speedily consoled, for, after all, as she and Diana said, big girls of thirteen, going on fourteen, were too old for such childish amusements as playhouses, and there were more fascinating sports to be found about the pond.Chapter 28 — An Unfortunate Lily Maid (14% in)
- She determined to "shroud her feelings in deepest oblivion," and it may be stated here and now that she did it, so successfully that Gilbert, who possibly was not quite so indifferent as he seemed, could not console himself with any belief that Anne felt his retaliatory scorn.Chapter 30 — The Queens Class Is Organized (69% in)
There are no more uses of "console" in Anne Of Green Gables.
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