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to comfort (emotionally)
- Soon the women would be consoling him, and he'd roll around in their sympathy, soak in it, massage himself with it.p. 191.4
- After she'd gone Jimmy moped for a week, and not even LyndaLee's dirty-mouthed convulsions could console him.p. 76.3
- These were the same birds that always called like this as dusk approached, and at dawn just before the sun came up, and Oryx was consoled by their sounds.p. 124.1
There are no more uses of "console" in Oryx and Crake.
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