disconsolateness

Some spend all their days in much darkness and disconsolateness, -- disputing it to and fro in their own thoughts, whether their portion and interest lie therein or not.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

I had walked to the front window with its starched, lacy curtain; and stood still, looking out in a puzzled maze at the strangeness of the morning's happenings, a certain sense of disconsolateness stealing over me.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Miss Madigan's gasp of horror, and could imagine the fishy disconsolateness of her expression.

The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906

Ed looked singularly awkward and lonesome as he sat sprawled out in one of the low seats, and curiously enough his uncouthness and disconsolateness of attitude won her heart back again.

Prairie Folks Hamlin Garland 1900

"She didn't cry," reported the mother, with a disconsolateness that did not agree with the cheering words of the reports.

When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900

Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness, "I'm miserable!"

Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

The long, maroon-coloured breeches preserved their usual disconsolateness, the teeth and diamonds retained their splendour, and the train -- many yards of azure blue richest Duchesse satin, embroidered with large bouquets of silver lily of the valley, and trimmed with plumes of azure blue ostrich feathers, and bunches of silver coral -- was upheld by two tiny children who tottered beneath its enormous weight.

Muslin 1892

Although he had resolved to return to Spain in the same ship, because of the disconsolateness of his parents at his departure, he changed his mind, and finished his novitiate in Manila.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

She broke down there; she is now home again at Chelsea, a cheery, amiable younger Jane Welsh to nurse her: the tone of her Letters is still full of disconsolateness.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

'Well, if you will not take care of me on a literal wild-goose chase,' said Owen, with playful disconsolateness, 'I'll not answer for the consequences.'

Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862