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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.

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

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.

From Prairie Folks by Garland, Hamlin

You know I seldom waste time in blaming myself, and tarry but a brief space in the idle disconsolateness of repentance.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

The Marquis de Pe�alta had passed from disconsolateness to melancholy, and from this he was gradually letting himself drift on toward a happier frame of mind.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

As for me, instead of desolating, the harsh disconsolateness of the scene seemed to uplift me; I savoured it with joy, as one savours the melancholy of a tragic work of art.

From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Bennett, Arnold