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  • I suppose she said this because we did not mean to tell Mrs. Bax anything about it, and if there was any brickiness in the act we wished Dora to have the consolement of getting the credit of it.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • Dora to have the consolement of getting the credit of it.

    New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891

  • Both have admirably managed _peripeteias_, the shorter story (_Mlle. de Kérouare_) having, in particular, a memorable setting of that inexorable irony of Fate against which not only is there no armour, but not even the chance and consolement of fighting armourless.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • To use and expend whatever force was in him for the good, the help, the consolement, and the love of others, ...

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • 'I do not see it, because I will not see it,' she said, and she found a personal cooling and consolement in the phrase.

    Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • 'I do not see it, because I will not see it,' she said, and she found a personal cooling and consolement in the phrase.

    Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • 'I do not see it, because I will not see it,' she said, and she found a personal cooling and consolement in the phrase.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Our downright repentance of misconduct toward a woman binds us at least to the tolerant recognition of what poor scraps of consolement she may have picked up between then and now -- when we can stretch fist in flame to defy it on the oath of her being a woman of honour.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Our downright repentance of misconduct toward a woman binds us at least to the tolerant recognition of what poor scraps of consolement she may have picked up between then and now -- when we can stretch fist in flame to defy it on the oath of her being a woman of honour.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Our downright repentance of misconduct toward a woman binds us at least to the tolerant recognition of what poor scraps of consolement she may have picked up between then and now -- when we can stretch fist in flame to defy it on the oath of her being a woman of honour.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

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