Example Sentences

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If you worry yourself into the grave over a man, before the grass has time to grow over you he will have consoled himself with another sweetheart.

From Kidnapped at the Altar or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain by Libbey, Laura Jean

It is the fashion to change them so rapidly that probably not a few of the ladies will have consoled themselves for their absence already.

From Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)