Example Sentences

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So he is solacing himself by reading Bolingbroke's works.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

I not very good,—extremely good, indeed, to sit down and write,—when every person below is solacing themselves on the approach of this happy festival?

From Barford Abbey by Gunning, Susannah Minific