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In London the Council of Foreign Ministers achieved only the disconsolation of all in the world who desired peace, not power.

From Time Magazine Archive

We reposed that night among the camp equipment, the sick man caring for naught in his physical collapse and disconsolation.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

But there was much of disconsolation in his voice.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank

The theme occasioned as much enthusiasm as could be expected from hearts saddened by disconsolation.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.

He was a thin, youngish kind of man, I should say past fifty, sort of French-Irish in his affections, and puffed up with disconsolation.

From Cabbages and Kings by Henry, O.