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Consoled by the idea, I gradually became quiet and resigned.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various

This Church had its rulers, the Bishops, and its members who are called "the Perfected," "the Consoled," and "the Believers."

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis)

Consoled by no better clew than this I went to bed in a down-stairs room, and in my strange rising next day I did not see the driver again.

From Red Men and White by Remington, Frederic

Consoled by this self-assurance, he quietly resigned himself to slumber; but before he fell asleep, he was very disagreeably undeceived in his conjecture.

From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

The minstrel daughters of the skies Looked on her woe with pitying eyes, And sun-bright children of the Gods835 Consoled the queen with smiles and nods.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)