All 5 Uses
solace
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Among the heroes were the men sent to give solace.†
Chpt 7. *
- 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.†
Chpt 13.
- The coverage offered solace—temporary solace, as it proved—to Hank Hansen's grieving mother, Mrs. Joseph Evelley.†
Chpt 15.
- The coverage offered solace—temporary solace, as it proved—to Hank Hansen's grieving mother, Mrs. Joseph Evelley.†
Chpt 15.
- These, after all, were the Americans who formed the solid home front of World War II: the men and women who worked assembly lines to build the tanks and guns; who gave sons and daughters to the conflict; who collected paper and bottles and scrap iron for the war effort; who as priests and ministers gave solace; who as day-to-day citizens sacrificed their luxuries and their necessities in the cause of victory.†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(solace) comfort felt or given during a time of disappointment or misery
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)