comfort

Before the season, Locksley said he took comfort in the development of the starters, but “my concern is we still don’t have the depth that you’re looking for because that’s the one position that you can’t rush the growth.”

But his reaction—awed, comforted, peaceful—is just a confirmation.

Although Vanessa comforted herself with the pretence that I had two fathers, in reality—emotional reality, that is—I had none.

Her hand tightened on mine and her head fell back upon my shoulder, but she still trembled and I petted her and comforted her.

On the day that The Times (of London) reported that Brooks would be questioned by police, she wrote that he had comforted her.

My newly acquired gas mask sits beside me, and I am comforted.

But I had wounded Dora's soft little heart, and she was not to be comforted.

The elder sister, relieved and comforted, soon sank into slumber herself.

Still, it is a real tail, and he has often comforted himself with that thought.

I comforted the child, and explained the noises he had heard, inquiring why he was alone?

To begin with, Effie wept copiously at parting with her beloved "auntie," as she called Beatrice, and would not be comforted.