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Consolingly

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In a comforting or consoling manner.  Synonym: comfortingly.






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"Consolingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... hysterically, "Oh, Mr. Kembel, my deare, deare Mr. Kembel!" This was Madame Malibran, under the effect of my father's performance of the Gamester, which she had just witnessed. "Come, come," quoth my father (who was old enough to have been hers, and knew her very well), patting her consolingly on the back, "Come now, my dear Madame Malibran, compose yourself; don't now, Marie, don't, my dear child!" all which was taking place on the public staircase, while I looked on in wide-eyed amazement behind. Madame Malibran, having suffered herself ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... said Mary Louise consolingly. "No one can know everything, Josie, even at our age. Now sit down and wipe that wet off your face and tell me all ...
— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)

... have to slow up, too," remarked Jack, consolingly. "And maybe we'll catch him on the open ...
— The Girl Scouts' Good Turn • Edith Lavell

... a sore grievance during that same year, 1851, that I was not judged old enough to go to the Great Exhibition, and I have a faint memory of my brother consolingly bringing me home one of those folding pictured strips that are sold in the streets, on which were imaged glories that I longed only the more to see. Far-away, dusky, trivial memories, these. What a pity it is that a baby cannot ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant

... a page, too, but there was no money awarded the ex-Bonapartist—money being what the Eaglet at Reichstadt most required for an attempt at his father's throne—and the poor officer was left in seclusion to write consolingly about his campaigns and "Defences ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo

... start at once for his holiday. A friend had just invited him to join him on his yacht. He added in a postscript: "I will write later." He did not write. Hours, days, weeks passed, and not a word did we hear. "It is a break-off," said my mother consolingly. "He had got tired of us all, and he thought this the easiest way of letting us know. I told you there was an understanding between him and Isabel Chisholm—any one could see ...
— Successful Recitations • Various

... sank again on her brother's shoulder. She shuddered, and leaned back faintly on the arm which he extended to support her. One of the female prisoners tried to help Trudaine in speaking consolingly to her; but the consummation of her husband's perfidy seemed to have paralyzed her at heart. She murmured once in her brother's ear, "Louis! I am resigned to die—nothing but death is left for me after the degradation of having loved ...
— After Dark • Wilkie Collins

... who have handled thousands of cocoons can," returned his guide consolingly. "I couldn't begin to do it. Here is a pile now! They have a hole in the end and cannot be reeled because every time the thread comes to the perforation it is broken. Probably the moth was allowed to escape and injured ...
— The Story of Silk • Sara Ware Bassett

... may yet hope for the best, Mercedes," said Monte-Cristo, consolingly. "God owes you a recompense, and you will ...
— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere

... Bucks," remarked Dancing consolingly. "That dog won't bother long. The first time the hounds run in, the bear ...
— The Mountain Divide • Frank H. Spearman

... "Never mind," said Jane consolingly, "why can't we be waiting for them at the other side next week when they come up here? They're not apt to suspect motorcyclists they meet up here with having ...
— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston

... said the shaggy man, consolingly; "I ought to make enough soup to feed them all, I'm so big; so I'll ask them to put me ...
— The Road to Oz • L. Frank Baum

... me just as well as, and in fact better than, the other plan," replied Albert consolingly. "If we have a lot of ladies along we must dance attendance upon them, and if not we can fish, smoke, play cards, sing, or go to sleep when we feel like it. I tell you, Frank," he continued, evidently desiring to cheer up that young ...
— Uncle Terry - A Story of the Maine Coast • Charles Clark Munn

... it will be you'll see," said Katy, consolingly. "Does Dr. Hope tell you anything about the place?" she added, turning over the letter which her father ...
— Clover • Susan Coolidge

... Egyptian God or other (I have forgotten the name) and his communication. They called the kitten Ra, or Toth, or Tum, or some thing; and when Lone Sahib confessed that the first one had, at his most misguided instance, been drowned by the sweeper, they said consolingly that in his next life he would be a "bounder," and not even a "rounder" of the lowest grade. These words may not be quite correct, but they accurately express the sense of ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... as he leaned over the parapet of the terrace, spoke consolingly to the Father of Swords concerning the People of the Chain. The Father of Swords listened to him, drawing meditatively at his waterpipe. He thereupon inquired if Matthews were acquainted with another friend of the prince among the merchants of Shuster, himself a Firengi by birth, though ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... she alone in a creation from which the sun had been cancelled? Where was her memory? What had she done last? She tried to think. She had been painting—oh yes! but it grew so dark she had to give it up. She must have fallen asleep after it, she began to think consolingly, but no! she had gone into her own little room and put on her daintiest apparel; she remembered pinning the bunch of camellias in her bonnet. But even this was no clue, she forgot after that. Was she in the open air or indoors? She ...
— Honor Edgeworth • Vera

... come. Just as the other three were being sent to bed, he came in, so tired he could hardly stand. The woman asked him harshly, if he couldn't come home with the others. The farmer assumed that the piece he had told Sami to weed had been too much for him to do, and he said consolingly: ...
— What Sami Sings with the Birds • Johanna Spyri

... afterwards he came back with a contract, in which he declares by all that he holds most sacred that he will serve me faithfully for the wages agreed upon, and to this document he affixed his seal and I my name. The next day he asked me for a month's wages in advance, which I gave him, but Dr. H. consolingly suggested that I ...
— Unbeaten Tracks in Japan • Isabella L. Bird

... get rattled," said the host, consolingly. "I'm not a policeman, sheriff, or detective, mate. I'll report this case as Captain Downs and so many souls saved from the schooner Alden. You'd better trot along up to the city and face 'em as a man should. I'll rig you out in some of my clothes. Your old friend, ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... "Never mind!" said Leonard consolingly. "I vote we go up Pendle Tor on Monday. We can boil a kettle there, and have no end of fun. If you've never been before, I expect you'll say it makes up ...
— The Manor House School • Angela Brazil

... take it now," he said consolingly. "But I didn't understand. I didn't know that you want to give things—I thought ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge

... declared the Frenchman consolingly. "See, here is the passage. They say that it was made by the contrabandists, but it leads to nowhere; it has been blocked since many years. Do not fall on the stones; ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell

... tightly together on his bosom, and he looked consolingly into her eyes. Her eyelids, were trembling, and her lips. She was sorry for her father, herself, Cowperwood. Through her he could sense the force of Butler's parental affection; the volume and danger of his rage. There were so many, many ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

... Yollop consolingly. "You see, my dear Alice, Mr. Smilk thinks,—and maintains,—that you did him a dirty trick when you had him turned out into a wicked, dishonest world. He was living on the fat of the land up there in Sing Sing, seeing motion pictures and plays ...
— Yollop • George Barr McCutcheon

... don't you? Oh, well, a man can stand a right smart suffering from heat like this and not die. It's the sun that's dangerous," remarked the sheriff consolingly. "And you had ought to suffer, sir! that's what folks are sent ...
— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester

... above letter alludes was a very bad one of sciatica. At length the baths of Baden in Switzerland cured me permanently, but after their—it is said ordinary and normal, but very perverse—fashion, having first made me incomparably worse. I suffered excruciatingly, consolingly (!) assured by the doctor that sciatica never kills—only makes you wish that it would! While I was at the worst my brother came to Baden to see me, and on leaving me after a couple of days, wrote to my wife ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... do well enough," said Patty consolingly, "and if you don't, dad has a typewriter, and maybe he will let you use that, and if he won't I know Roy will let you write with his. It is only a little one, ...
— Little Maid Marian • Amy E. Blanchard

... Esther would not be left. Oh, no! Even now she glowed with pride at the thought of her firmness in the matter. If she had remained in England she would never have seen her dear father again. Here remembrances grew bitter and sad, until Jack's hand reached soothingly, consolingly out to her, and she brushed away her tears, so as not to sadden him ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... her consolingly on the shoulder, but said nothing—and Valdemar sighed. Britta sought for her handkerchief, and dried her eyes—but, after a minute, began to cry again as ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli

... himself greatly on the elegance of his manners, and it horrified him that he should have so far forgotten himself as to swear in the presence of a lady. "But they've no place in business anyhow!" he thought to himself consolingly. ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan

... lies," put in Delphy consolingly, "an' I 'low dat dar's mo' in de manner uv lyin' den in de lie. Some lies is er long ways sweeter ter de tas' den Gospel trufe. Abraham, he lied, en it ain't discountenance him wid de Lord. Marse Tom, he lied when he wuz young, en it spar'd 'im er whoppin'. Hit's ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... Sunny, and she was almost grave for an instant. "But I will come back some day, when I have found my Prince, and then you shall be my gardener," she went on consolingly. "And you don't mind my going without ...
— All the Way to Fairyland - Fairy Stories • Evelyn Sharp

... will not be for long,' she added consolingly. 'In the corner of the stable is a little shrine to the goddess of horses, and every day fresh roses are placed before it. Before the sun sets to-morrow you will ...
— The Red Romance Book • Various

... consultation with this man the future arrangements of my house. He recommended for the services about my person a certain Bendel, whose honest and intelligent physiognomy immediately captivated me. He it was whose attachment has since accompanied me consolingly through the wretchedness of life, and has helped me to support my gloomy lot. I spent the whole day in my room among masterless servants, shoemakers, tailors, and tradespeople. I fitted myself out, and purchased besides a great many jewels and ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various

... to complain," said Wolf consolingly; "youth is past, but you have used it well. A great name in science, ...
— How Women Love - (Soul Analysis) • Max Simon Nordau

... deck, smudged his white trousers with paint or coal-tar, the free application of which in unexpected places is one of the snares attending a well-appearing man-of-war. "Never mind, doctor," said the flag-officer, consolingly, falling back like Sancho Panza on an ancient proverb; "remember the two dirtiest things in the world are a clean ship and a clean soldier"—paint and pipe-clay, ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan

... said, slowly and consolingly: "I reckon if you'd shot me I'd be knowin' it. Don't take it so hard, ma'am. Why, if a man goes to breakin' into a woman's room that way he sure ain't fit to go on livin' in a world ...
— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer

... myself about that, Colon," Brad hastened to say, consolingly; "given a few days to rest, and you'll be as tough as ever. That strain was heart-breaking, and nobody could blame you for wilting under it, after what you passed through yesterday. If I'd known we were going to meet that ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... engaged. Of course I can lower your tea in a tin bucket, and if it should rain I can throw out umbrellas. Would you like your golf-cape, Pen? 'Won'erful blest in weather ye are, mam!' The situation is not so bad as it might be," she added consolingly, "because in case Miss Grieve's toilette should last longer than usual, your wedding need not be indefinitely postponed, for Mr. Macdonald can ...
— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... situation in too gloomy a light," said Madame von Berg, consolingly. "No further events have occurred ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach

... a sweeping gesture. "They're going to take all the r-robots, dismantled or not. They're not good for anything anyway. The bill is up before the Federation Congress right now. And it will pass if my master, Langley says so." He patted my helmet, consolingly, his grapples clanking. "If you were worth a damn, you know—" ...
— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns

... prophet take his preference for Huldah amiss. The proud, dignified answer of the prophetess was, that the misfortune could not be averted from Israel, but the destruction of the Temple, she continued consolingly, would not happen until after the death of Josiah. (117) In view of the imminent destruction of the Temple, Josiah hid the holy Ark and all its appurtenances, in order to guard them against desecration at the hands ...
— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... philosophic. Of the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh stanzas, I am doubtful which is the most beautiful. Do not imagine that I cling to a fond love of future identity, but the thought which you have expressed in the last stanzas might be more grandly, and therefore more consolingly exemplified. I had forgot to say that sameness and identity are words too etymologically the same to be placed so ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull

... assured Lawton consolingly, picking up one of the cups and examining the bottom of it ...
— The Claim Jumpers • Stewart Edward White

... not papa's new cane, you know, Dick," said Dulcie consolingly. "I've hidden that; it's only the old one, and you always said that didn't hurt so very much, after a little while. It isn't as if it was the horsewhip, either. Daddy lost that out riding ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey

... a girl," said Georgie, consolingly; and we ran on contentedly, wading across the shallow pools of salt water, clambering over the rocks, and now and then stopping to pick up a bright pebble or shell. The whole scene comes vividly before me as I think of it now:—the gray and brown cliffs, with their sharp ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 • Various

... honey," she said consolingly, forgetting her own disappointment in Billie's. "We'll find some way to get ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler

... up around your waist, and fasten the braid to your belt, and then it won't hurt it," said Maria, consolingly. ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... him: "What will father say when he hears of this walk? Will he not scold mother and be even more angry with her than usual?" A sullen defiance took possession of him; he set his teeth, then he stroked his mother's hand consolingly, ...
— Dame Care • Hermann Sudermann

... position before the Germans. I then put the shells, one on either side, and connected them with a fine trip-wire tied to each ring. I hurried from the spot as though the pestilence were after me, and got back safely—to the surprise of my brother officers who very consolingly said that they all expected I would blow myself up. At half past eight, however, there was music in our ears of a loud explosion in the direction of my mine. Next morning, through the telescope, could be seen what remained of several Hun carcasses. Pat, my batman, who was always a Job's comforter, ...
— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett

... the horse, and began patting its nose. "Poor fellow," she said, consolingly, in English, looking all the while ...
— The Ivory Snuff Box • Arnold Fredericks

... noble loyalty. "Well, them two I mentioned can stir up some trouble; but they ain't the brains of their gang, by a long shot. It's this E. Eliot we gotta deal with. She's as smart, if not smarter, than any man in this town. She's smarter than you, George—or me, either," he added consolingly. ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.

... up at the last moment," said Ethel, consolingly, to Harry; but she was very uneasy herself, for she had set her heart on his surpassing Harvey Anderson. No more was heard all day. Tom went at dinner-time to see if he could pick up any news; but he was shy, or was too late, and gained no intelligence. Dr. May and Richard talked of going ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

... monks are not bad," remarked Nora consolingly. "Think of the Great St. Bernard ones, with ...
— Four Ghost Stories • Mrs. Molesworth

... I told you," whispered the Steam, consolingly; "but, between you and me and the last cloud I came from, it was bound to happen sooner or later. You had to give a fraction, and you've given without knowing it. Now, hold ...
— Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II • Rudyard Kipling

... said Delia, consolingly, but with an effort and a sigh. "She ain't always like this. She's sorter upset just now. She don't mean any harm, and she'll be sorry enough for what she's done ...
— The Governess • Julie M. Lippmann

... that you will surely have a sweetheart some day or other," he said, consolingly, though the fire from those dark eyes startled him, and her scarlet lips ...
— A Mad Love • Bertha M. Clay

... Mrs. Chapman, rising from her chair, and placing her hand consolingly on Angeline's shoulder; "there is nothing in the world to weep for. Nothing in the world. I would be proud of a son who had courage and ambition enough to go on one of these voyages. It is proof, my good woman, that he has something in him. And if he should ...
— The Von Toodleburgs - Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family • F. Colburn Adams

... raise himself up on his elbows to see anything but the sky above him, while in storms the damp, heavy covering casts him into outer darkness. Under the most favourable circumstances little is seen of the country travelled through, but, as the Chief of Police consolingly remarked, "Between here and Yakutsk there is ...
— From Paris to New York by Land • Harry de Windt

... Frank remarked, consolingly; "a lawyer isn't supposed to know much about trails, and all such things. That comes to a fellow who has spent years outdoors, studying things around him, and keeping his wits on edge ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson

... Henderson. Perhaps the horrid noise and vulgarity, and your society, may brighten me up," she said consolingly, "or ...
— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson

... expression upon his mother's face, he added consolingly: "But it doesn't matter, since God ...
— My Impresssions of America • Margot Asquith

... Bob," said Nita, consolingly. "We won't tell any of the Dramatic Club girls about it. We're all sophomores here, but Madeline Ayres, and she's as good as a sophomore; so don't worry. You ...
— Betty Wales, Sophomore • Margaret Warde

... you might say—that she's made us all feel spooky; but we have no apparitions at Deerhurst, let me tell you," said Herbert, consolingly. ...
— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond

... madame," added Louis, consolingly. "Mariette will never leave you. We shall not live in luxury, but in modest comfort; and Mariette shall continue to love you as a mother, while I shall love ...
— A Cardinal Sin • Eugene Sue

... clubs need not affect you, sir," replied my father consolingly. "Not a man in England of any sense is ignorant of the fact that it is none of your fault that the Baltic Fleet was sent out on a wild-goose chase and failed to capture Cronstadt and annihilate the Russian ships inside that stronghold; though, I believe, ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson

... could say no more, though she could not suppress the reflection that Lottie might have given the clue weeks before, if she had been so disposed. "But, as she says, the worst is over. Nothing much can happen in three days," she told herself consolingly; wherein she was for something very exciting indeed was fated to happen before half ...
— Pixie O'Shaughnessy • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... Arnold, consolingly. "It's only he that has lost his. He doesn't take exercise enough. He's coming this way to speak to you. You had better think of ...
— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull

... Brother," said Shaggy consolingly; "I am very happy to have found you again, although I may never see your face. So let us make the most of this ...
— Tik-Tok of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... Duncan," she said, consolingly, "mother's often threatened and never done it before, and Elsie's a wilful child, with a spirit and temper that must needs be broken. But ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... for by and by," Monsieur Joseph said to himself, consolingly. Aloud he said, "It happens that my nephew is not ...
— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price

... you don't need to worry, mamma," said Keith consolingly, stirred as always by the appearance of an emotional note in ...
— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman

... replied Sharley consolingly, 'you needn't be at all babyish because you're little. One of our boys is very little, but he's not a bit of a baby. I'm sure Val will like to play with you, and so will Anna—and all of us, for ...
— My New Home • Mary Louisa Molesworth

... habit that weakens and enslaves the will, infected the English lad whether he would or no. "There's lots of things he's stick-stock mad on," Philip would say impatiently to his sister. But the madness told. And the madman was all the while consolingly rich in other, and, to Philip, more attractive kinds of madness—the follies of the hunter and climber, of the man who holds his neck as dross in comparison with the satisfaction of certain wild instincts that the Rockies excite in him. Anderson had enjoyed his full ...
— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... have their wild moments," he remarked consolingly. "This was one of yours. You paid me a very poor compliment, by the bye, to imagine that an insignificant creature ...
— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... she said, after Hamish, followed consolingly by Tricksy, had passed out of hearing, 'we must make them too late for ...
— The Adventure League • Hilda T. Skae

... synagogues, and the burning of our books—a mighty sect throughout the length and the breadth of Central Europe, yet have I little pleasure in them, little joy in the spread of the teaching to which I devoted my life. And sometimes—now that my Master's face no longer shines consolingly upon me, save in dream and memory—I dare to wonder if the world is better for his having lived. And indeed at times I find myself sympathizing with our chief persecutor, the saintly and learned ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... dear: you were in a rotten fix and you got out of it nicely," said fat Mrs. Moran, and Mrs. Villalonga added consolingly: "Why, my heavens, Rachael, I'd leave Booth to- morrow for anyone half ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris

... do nawthin'," he declared consolingly. "They're both powerful mawdrate hosses. Besides,"—the speaker stole a half-mischievous, half-shy look at her companion,—"Thinkright'll tell ye it's one o' the seven deadly sins to be skeered of anythin' that's ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... the possible effects of the invasion as by the fact. Gentle Annie was lowing plaintively. The chickens were scurrying about the yard, cackling hysterically as they dodged this and that herder. The two pigs, Sundown reflected consolingly, seemed happy enough. Loring, standing in the doorway, pointed to the stove. "Get busy," he said tersely. That was the last straw. Silently Sundown stalked to the stove, rolled up his sleeves, and went to work. If there were not a score of mighty sick herders that night, ...
— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... the more home to Betty's heart, and they rang consolingly in her ears, all through the sermon, of which she took in so little that she never found out that it was an elaborate exposition of the Newtonian philosophy, including Mr. Arden's views of the miracle at the battle Beth-horon, in the Lesson for ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... esteem which Caesar for thee feels And give his party pride a parting dig. (Enter Quezox and McDuff) Quezox: My Liege, McDuff, who fills a council seat Within the party which has long controlled Affairs politic in these tropic Isles, Would fain resign the office he now holds. Francos, consolingly: Events march on, and as the whirligig Of time revolves, so 'tis with politics. To-day one soars aloft on Vict'ry's wings; Tomorrow Fate those pinions proud may clip. 'Tis here Philosophy a cooling ...
— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)

... drew the curtains, pushed back a log, and said consolingly: "Verra—verra." When she had gone Archer stood up and began to wander about. Should he wait any longer? His position was becoming rather foolish. Perhaps he had misunderstood Madame Olenska—perhaps she had not ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton

... "Well," remarked Marty consolingly, "a tenth isn't much any way; you'd hardly miss it. Neither would the Jews, for I guess they were ...
— A Missionary Twig • Emma L. Burnett

... "We lasted through an earthquake this afternoon, pal," he said consolingly. "I guess we can ...
— Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X • Victor Appleton

... thought I was worrying about it," he persisted, "and that I'd be unhappy because I was beaten?" He patted her shoulder consolingly with a big hand. "But that's all in the day's work, child. I'm beaten somewhere nearly as often as I win. And really, down inside, leaving out a little superficial pleasure, I don't care a damn whether I win or lose. A man couldn't be any good as a lawyer, if he did care, any more than a surgeon ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... Extract! Oh, what a girl!" laughed grandma, but patting her head, consolingly, "Our little Jean is very nice, but I think I'm ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

... much danger of that in a wooden ship," said Paul consolingly. He wished the two former vaudeville actresses would try to have a ...
— The Moving Picture Girls at Sea - or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real • Laura Lee Hope

... faint, Senorita—I cannot let you go; dthere ees no seat here." He takes off my hat and fans me. "Zome boy try to frighten you," he says consolingly. ...
— Under the Southern Cross • Elizabeth Robins

... driven you to it—it is not your fault," said Trude, consolingly. "Every human being is free to work out his own good or bad fortune, and, as our dear Old Fritz says, 'to be happy in the future world in his own way.' They have sold you for money, and you only prove to them that ...
— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach

... dramatically capped by the click of a cocking pistol, 'Frisco Kid obeyed and went grumblingly back to the cockpit. "Oh, there 's plenty more chances to come," he whispered consolingly to Joe. "French Pete was cute, was n't he? He thought you might be trying to make a break, and put ...
— The Cruise of the Dazzler • Jack London

... impetuous Croghan of his command and sent a colonel to replace him. But Croghan argued the point so eloquently that the stockade was restored to him next day and he won his chance to do or die. Harrison consolingly informed him that he was to retreat if attacked by British troops "but that to attempt to retire in the face of an Indian ...
— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine

... a letter from his pocket, rolled himself, with his heavy pipe tobacco, a cigarette as thick as his finger, and fell to puffing such huge clouds as would discourage other bees from prying into the thicket. Then he remarked irrelevantly but consolingly: ...
— Children of the Wild • Charles G. D. Roberts

... not so bad the way they tell it now," she explained, consolingly. "Nobody belaves now it was yer father that got kilt. It was two fellers what stole his outfit, clothes an' all, an' was drivin' off wid 'em inter the sand hills. Divil a wan does know who kilt 'em, but there's some ugly stories travellin' about. Some says Injuns; some says the posse run ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish

... said consolingly. "She'll have a grand talk with Pa, and feel martyred, and talk it over with Lou and Clara, and come to the conclusion that it's all for the best. Poor Lyd, do you remember how she used to laugh and dance about the house when we were little? Do you remember ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris

... anybody would be sorry if they understood that it was dear, dear grandmother's watch—and even if they knew nothing, any one would be sorry if they saw your poor dear sweet little unhappy face," said Molly consolingly. ...
— A Christmas Posy • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

... say for you you don't funk," said Kate consolingly; "and I suppose all sailors ride like monkeys.—There are the hounds going on; we are only just ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... consolingly. "You'll be coming over in a year or two with the Pater, and Moggy and I will give you such a good time as you never had in your lives. We'll all go up to Estes Park and camp out for a month. I can see you now coming down the trail on a burro,—what ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge

... manifest themselves, of which we have no trace. Gellert, too, heard in his dreams a singing; he knew not what it was, but it rang so consolingly, so joyously! ... Christopher drove on, and he felt as though a bandage had been taken from his eyes; he reflected what a nice house, what a bonny wife and rosy children he had, and how warm the cloak which he had thrown over him was, and how well off were both man ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2) • Various

... "we" fell on Edgar's loneliness of spirit consolingly; for it adds a new pang to self-distrust when righteous people withdraw from one in utter disdain, even if they are "only girls" who know little of ...
— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... said Granny Grimshaw consolingly. "And they're easy enough to amuse, as all the world knows. Give 'em a good feed, and they won't give any trouble. It's quite a job to get ready for 'em, that it is, but it's the only bit of entertaining he does all the year round, so I ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... try, dear!" Miss Templeton said consolingly, and she accompanied Gladys up to town, where they inquired of doctors, and chemists, and all sorts of possible and impossible people; and returned to Kew laden with chemicals, and patent beetle destroyers. But though they tried remedies by the score, none were of use, and the beetles ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell

... listen to my advice, and boast a little less, and do a little more,' said Jonas, consolingly. 'Walter is ...
— The Lilac Fairy Book • Andrew Lang

... thought of those old, unnecessary scruples. He had been holding himself to a compact which no longer existed. And, all along, he had been regarding himself as the weakling, the vacillator, when it was he who had held out the longest! He had even, in those earlier hesitating moments, consolingly recalled to his mind how Monsieur Blanc's modestly denominated Societe Anonyme des Bains de Mer et Cercle des Etrangers made it a point to proffer a railway ticket to any impending wreck, such as himself, who might drift like a ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer

... you are coming to us," said Olga consolingly. "So he can go without you now with ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell

... said, consolingly; "how can she know anything about it? Why, she can't even throw ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame

... what you got last year's award for?" I asked consolingly. "And after all, isn't this modesty, this lack of jealousy on your part, a ...
— The Point of View • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum

... seem to fit in, that! However," he added consolingly, "if they did abolish you, you'd no ...
— In the Mayor's Parlour • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

... "I think," she murmured consolingly, "that you made amends to me later." Her face was averted, but I could see a distracting dimple in her cheek. "You mustn't forget that I haven't been perfect, either. When you followed me to Bleau, and I came down the stairs and saw you, I misunderstood the situation entirely and was ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti

... interrupted Harkness, consolingly. "No one as I know is going to dispute that your mother was a plain New England woman. And we're not going to quarrel at such a rememberable moment, not we. And we're going to give Mr. Gordon a welcome as is befitting a Forsyth. At the appointed hour we'll gather at the door—you must ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott

... have had a good deal against you," she added consolingly. "Won't you sit down and tell me about it? Mr. Nairn, I understand, is writing some letters, and he sent for Mrs. Nairn just before you came in. I don't suppose she will be back for a ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss

... his sister consolingly, "you took the prize, and that's glory enough to make up for lots ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells

... the Lift-Drift Ratio, consolingly. "You are improving rapidly, and quite useful enough now to think of doing ...
— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

... for it; nothing to be done but cut off the damaged portion from the waist to the heels—no easy matter, for it was frozen as stiff as a board. "It will make a better riding-jacket now," said Gerome, consolingly; "but this son of a pig shall not gain by it," he added, stamping the ruined remains ...
— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt

... surprised if she'll be able to use it again,' he said consolingly—'the mandolin, I mean. Besides, what's the good of it anyway? I say, ...
— Love at Second Sight • Ada Leverson

... turkeys will die," said Unity consolingly. "They always do. I spoke to Sam about the ducks and the guinea-hens the other day. I told him we were going to send them to Fredericksburg. He didn't like it. 'Miss Unity, what fer you gwine ter send all dem critturs away lak dat? You sen' 'em from Greenwood, ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

... her with a gesture. "That's all right," I said consolingly. "I wouldn't have thought so for a moment. But ...
— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh

... sorrow and to both there was something comic in the picture of the elderly Caroline, suffering from a chill and bemoaning the loss of an evening's pleasure. Henrietta cast a look of scornful surprise at her Aunt Sophia. Was the Battys' ball a matter for a broken heart? Rose said consolingly, 'It isn't till after Christmas. Perhaps ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG

... the poor places, Alice," he said consolingly. "I am a young man yet, remember. We must take our turn, and be patient. For 'we know that all things work together ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... tell you what is your own to give," said Mother consolingly, "that is your time. All children have a great deal of time to do as they like in, and I can show you how you can use that ...
— Golden Moments - Bright Stories for Young Folks • Anonymous

... read it over, act by act, to my two friends, until at last I was able to get them all together for a private reading, which made a deep impression on the few intimate friends who composed the audience. As Frau Wesendonck appeared to be particularly moved by the last act, I said consolingly that one ought not to grieve over it, as, under any circumstances, in a matter so grave things generally turned out in this way, and Cosima heartily agreed. We also had a good deal of music together, as in Billow ...
— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner

... muttered: "My faith! we haven't heard the last of it yet!" Four bells were struck.—"Half our watch below gone!" cried Knowles in alarm, then reflected. "Well, two hours' sleep is something towards a rest," he observed, consolingly. Some already pretended to slumber; and Charley, sound asleep, suddenly said a few slurred words in an arbitrary, blank voice.—"This blamed boy has worrums!" commented Knowles from under a blanket, in a learned manner. Belfast got up and approached Archie's ...
— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad

... get excited and forget about the thumbs," remarked Georgie, consolingly. "Mamma, aren't you coming to ...
— A Little Country Girl • Susan Coolidge

... Joyce, consolingly. "Mamma has Grandma Ware's old receipt for rose balm, that will soon heal those blisters. You would have saved yourself a good deal of trouble and suffering if you had gone to her in the ...
— The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor • Annie Fellows Johnston

... pieces startled Constance somewhat, although she had come prepared by a childlike faith in Ruskin's infallibility to worship them. She was, however, too frank to attempt to conceal her real impressions, and then Merton consolingly informed her that no person could appreciate a Turner before seeing it many times. One's first impression is, that over this canvas the artist has dashed a bucket of soap-suds, and over that a pot of red and yellow ...
— Fan • Henry Harford

... soon be back in it," he said, consolingly. "And we'll hope to find better news. I wish Murray had said more; it's a mistake to frighten folk in that way—he's said just too much ...
— Dead Men's Money • J. S. Fletcher

... the Cherub remarked consolingly, he could not do much worse than force me out of Spain. Neither I, nor anyone else, had ever said in so many words that I was Cristobal O'Donnel. If people had taken my identity for granted because of a few round-about hints, and ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson



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