How To Use Consolation In A Sentence

And there was some consolation for the connections of Limestone Lad when Solerina won the novice hurdle.
Comrades however had the last say when Dean Gordon grabbed a consolation goal for them on the stroke of full time.
Luckily there was consolation at home in the form of a birth announcement. Times, Sunday Times
For the inarticulate Trevor, ‘I think you're really cool,’ is a major statement of devotion, and ‘buck up, little camper’ is the best consolation he can offer.
But he told us one felt the motion there, more than anywhere else, in a storm; which must be some consolation to the "middies" who have to work for years before they can ever hope for such luxurious quarters. Set in Silver

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Ready availability being the most precious of Prohibition virtues, gin was lifted above the historical pedigree that led Willa Cather to call it “the consolation of sailors and inebriate scrub-women.” LAST CALL
With that sternness which is admissible only to the afflicted, I have denied myself even the consolation of your visits. My Novel — Volume 07
My consolation is that the solstice will occur soon and the darkness recede in what I call the optimistic months of the year, though autumn has its moments. The Storm's Mixed Metaphors
Despite the reverse, Kiwi Searancke's players earned a consolation bonus point to cling on to their lead in Pool B and remain on course to secure a home quarter-final.
But this was of little consolation or comfort to the latter who for the second year running had lost out at the final hurdle.
At the hour of death the Holy Masses you have heard devoutly will be your greatest consolation.
Potter confessed City's second-half showing could not match that of the first but believed Radcliffe deserved credit for stemming the flow of goals conceded before grabbing a late consolation ten minutes from time.
The result was great consolation after a disappointing non-finish in the first race earlier in the day.
Sport imbues the ephemeral and the silly and the transitory with great gravity, and it's a kind of consolation in a world that buckles beneath meaning and import and significance.
There is some consolation for fans because the team still stands a chance of winning the local championship.
But he gets no consolation from any of these, so malicious have his dealings with them been. The Times Literary Supplement
They ` re going to probably give him a consolation pry, which is going to be rap album. CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2006
With the speed of an eagle, Hamish darted up the acclivity, and stood by the minister of Glenorquhy, who was pacing out thus early to administer consolation to a distressed family near Bunawe. Chronicles of the Canongate
This fleshy digit is his security blanket, his best friend and sole consolation in an overly-critical world.
It is natural to weigh our sacrifices against their results, although the process brings little consolation, for so often in our superficial view the results are minified beyond our vision and the sacrifice fills the whole horizon. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
That was small consolation for an ordnance department that had to supply ammunition to the frontlines in more than a dozen different calibers.
The overriding metaphor of the seasons also provides a note of consolation, suggesting not only loss and death but also renewal and rebirth. TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
It is a consolation, a socially acceptable comfort blanket.
And if he too was stumped, it would be no small consolation to my ego.
The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be, Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
[Page 221] even with respect to the spiritual interests of beloved friends, where certainly acquiescence in disappointment is most difficult (perhaps in this world impossible) even in this case, there is great consolation in recollecting, that the Judge of all the earth will do right. Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
And the exquisite consolation, when you have ascertained the badness of all fact, in knowing that badness is inferior to goodness, to the end -- it only rubs the pessimism in. Familiar Letters of William James III
It precluded the possibility of appeasement or consolation. Times, Sunday Times
And in this time of Pasque our mother holy church ne doth but joy and maketh solation for the resurrection of Jesu Christ, and therefore is then said: Alleluia, which signifieth joy and consolation, for after that creature hath done penance by virtue of humility in weepings and lamentations he must lead after, joy and very consolation. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
Enveloped in duende, the nihilism of Levis's poetry negated beliefs and consolations.
The consolation is that Blair was tormented by the encounters. Ed Miliband draws first blood at PMQs
Perhaps there is bathos in the conjunction, but there was consolation in both. TESTIMONIES
They are paintings about boredom and the consolation of invented pleasures.
So, unless the viewing in the Michaud pissoir was of an engorged and distended “Scottie” — which it plainly was not — then Papa was offering Fitzgerald a surrogate form of consolation. Hemingway's Libidinous Feast
One of the consolations of getting older is that you become less interested in yourself.
The only consolation for the team is that they get a chance to play the game again.
Like Kathy, she had found great spiritual consolation at Holy Trinity in the wake of a broken marriage.
One of the consolations - for gardeners - of the long, wet, dark winter evenings is to sit in front of a roaring fire with seed catalogues and plant lists, and dream of how the garden will look in the summer.
These points notwithstanding, Joe Cinque's Consolation is a lovely piece of writing and I don't begrudge a single minute I spent curled up with it.
This news was of little consolation to us.
Now let your worships turn your eyes to that tower that appears there, which is supposed to be one of the towers of the alcazar of Saragossa, now called the now called the Aljaferia; that lady who appears on that balcony dressed in Moorish fashion is the peerless Melisendra, for many a time she used to gaze from thence upon the road to France, and seek consolation in her captivity by thinking of Paris and her husband. Don Quixote
They might take consolation in the thought that the eventual destination of those so purged is paradise.
Without having first made this diversion, he would have found it impracticable to leave the house with tranquillity; but, when this bewitching philtre grew into an habit, her attachment to Ferdinand was insensibly dissolved; she began to bear his neglect with indifference, and, sequestering herself from the rest of the family, used to solicit this new ally for consolation. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably.
There is one big consolation for the Labour leader. Times, Sunday Times
We were drenched, cold, and in need of consolation. Christianity Today
dredger" came its rounds; and, for fear he should miss the warm consolations of a lower third "Scrunch," they organised one for his special benefit, and had the happiness of seeing him rising in the middle, scared and puffing, with cheeks the colour of a peony. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton
My only consolation is that everyone else is displaying equally questionable coiffures - mullets and blond highlights seemed to be the look of the late 80s Somerset Sixth Form student.
The only consolation, I think she was killed instantly.
We also discover that Terry, whose wife absconded with his best man, has turned for clandestine consolation to a naively trusting shopgirl, Nuala, and a dance-loving hairdresser, Breda.
If it's any consolation to you, the weather here is also awful.
Muriel did not know precisely what she was trying to convey - more than consolation; nothing she could have explained.
The only consolation for the team is that they get a chance to play the game again.
Looking for the consolation prize of a seal cull in Carnley Harbour in the Auckland Islands group, Captain Thomas Musgrave and the mate Francois Raynal were accompanied by three other sailors - and soon-to-be castaways.
Another big call centred on the choice of D'Arcy ahead of Wallace (who has the consolation of covering the out-half berth) at first centre. IrishExaminer.com
Simply put, his wild imagination and inexhaustible creative energy might have been the only consolations for a life that seemed destined for meek destitution from the start.
Among the more salubrious consolations of the past months have been 5000 letters of support from the public and the unsolicited hugs of strangers.
Mary has been the source of solace and consolation in times of anxiety.
If not, they often fall into depression, and seek consolation in excessive eating, or drug and alcohol abuse.
Having had a poor run of three bogeys in four holes from the seventh, she had the consolation of a strong finish.
Three successful transplant operations followed which offered some small consolation to all who loved Nikita.
Ryan Robinson netted a consolation goal for the Huddersfield side from the penalty spot but it was too late to prevent Crag from taking all three points.
The first memorably charts his wife's descent into Alzheimer's, but all progress into meditations on bereavement with its consolations of memory and excursions into the fantasies which have relieved his grief.
Rather, it is the one consolation of a tiresome chore. Times, Sunday Times
In an article published by the magazine in June, he wrote, "My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends. NYDN Rss
I wept from the fulness of mine, with words of sweetest kindness and consolation, he soothed and tranquillised me. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
In the second, a man facing a lifetime of loneliness after the love for his wife has turned sour finds consolation in hallucinogenic mushrooms. Times, Sunday Times
The only consolation is that no one takes a blind bit of notice of them. The Sun
When a Poor-spirited Creature that died at the same time for his Crimes bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this Question, Is it no Consolation to such a Man as thou art to die with Phocion? Spectator, August 2, 1711
The other woman, her voice lower, murmured some words of consolation to her friend.
To the Griqua went the consolation of having their name perpetuated in one of the richest portions of the earth's surface, which once they had called their own. Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
The only consolation is that no one takes a blind bit of notice of them. The Sun
It is, however, small consolation to the higher-income person that the poorer man is paying the same percentage of income in tax as he, for the wealthier person is being mulcted far more than before.
While we think of this protracted cruelty of the author of his imprisonment, it is some consolation to know that he met with what we may well call a merited retribution. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
Kevin was at a loss over how to offer his son any physical or emotional consolation.
Enveloped in duende, the nihilism of Levis's poetry negated beliefs and consolations, but it did so to revivify our humanity and refresh the abilities of poetry.
Her right hand is raised, signaling the mudra, the traditional Buddhist gesture of consolation.
Getting third prize was poor consolation for all their hard work.
She had the consolation of coming second in her last race of the day.
The only consolation is that a new series beckons and she will be the star of the show. Times, Sunday Times
His loveless, routine marriage (to an unrecognisably frumpy Cameron Diaz) is little consolation and, despairing of making a living in his chosen career, he takes a job as a filing clerk.
Some guidebooks describe this ridge as relentless, and it is, but underfoot conditions are good and it's just a question of plodding upwards with ever widening views all around you as consolation.
Although we lost the game, we took some consolation from the fact that we played well.
There is plenty of such colourful metaphor in this book - it is one of the consolations as one contemplates the astonishing greed, vanity, chutzpah and arrogance of the CEO.
If it's any consolation, it's been another ding-dong midweek derby - but it's the first time I can remember we've been on the wrong end of one.
The only consolation was that a series of valuable recces had been carried out in an area they had not previously visited.
This news was of little consolation to us.
I wanted him to know the comfort and consolation of Christ's redemptive love.
That would be scant consolation for the economic hardship that would follow. Times, Sunday Times
We lay up in the stuffy, sweltering heat of the wood all afternoon, listening to the incessant thunder of the cannonading; one consolation was the regular crash of the artillery salvoes, which indicated that Wheeler's gunners were making good practice, and must still be well stocked with powder and shot. Fiancée
Only a churl would deny anyone the consolation of hope.
Do you find consolation in prayer and aspiration, and holy self-destruction here, at the twelfth station?
The Hebrew name, probably in the intensive form, Nahhum, signifies primarily "full of consolation or comfort", hence "consoler" (St. Jerome, consolator), or "comforter". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
There is also the humble consolation of putting food in a hungry belly. The Times Literary Supplement
However since there's nothing I can do I will have to settle with a kind yet awkward consolation phrase ( "there, there" * pat, pat*) and a half-muttered "better you than me ... AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
She always had a word of consolation and comfort to all who had the pleasure of knowing her.
Some tragedy consoles, after all, and it is arguable that some of its consolations are facile and false.
Based on the feedback from public consolation processes the working group decided to put in place a household pick-up service which is bookable in advance and which has all-ability access.
In the meantime, the lights of the Crown Hotel offered some consolation.
Her tour to the Lakes was now the object of her happiest thoughts; it was her best consolation for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her mother and Kitty made inevitable; and could she have included Jane in the scheme, every part of it would have been perfect. Pride and Prejudice
From the soothing chearfulness of his conversation Lord Seyntaubyne experienced much consolation. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
At last, when they were going to fire the cannon to which Choiseul was fixed, the captain threw himself on the body of his friend, and closely embracing him in his arms, said to the cannonier, "Fire! since I cannot serve my benefactor, I shall at least have the consolation of dying with him. The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection
Verbal testimony connected his great poem of farewell and consolation, for example, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (with its famous image of the couple as “stiffe twin compasses”) with Donne’s departure for France in 1611. The Biographical Fallacy
Perhaps there is bathos in the conjunction, but there was consolation in both. TESTIMONIES
The devaluing is disingenuous, this identification of singular purpose and import, this assertion that prose and plot and all other textual features are of no consequence, unravelling to a refusal to recognise any purpose or import other than pedagogic consolation. Archive 2009-07-01
So would he attempt to persuade an individual who had always harmlessly derived comfort and consolation from his faith that his life was based on a falsehood?
The allusions to a few recent works of sympathetic labor history in this piece are a genuine consolation.
And this Poesie must be used by whosoever will follow S. Paules {27} counsaile, in singing Psalmes when they are mery, and I knowe is used with the frute of comfort by some, when in sorrowfull panges of their death bringing sinnes, they finde the consolation of the never leaving goodnes. Defence of Poesie
On his return to town he found that the sugar-refiner had died and that his widow was inconsolable -- in other words, in want of consolation. Barchester Towers
They were outmanoeuvred for 70 minutes by a decent Dunfermline side, but a late burst of urgency brought them a consolation goal and made the last few minutes tense for the winners.
As with any team facing an Old Firm member in the Scottish Cup final, the script reads that you turn up, do your best, but prepare for a hiding and the consolation of a loser's medal.
I find consolation in the fact that psychological research shows that man is capable of empathy as well as evil.
We were drenched, cold, and in need of consolation. Christianity Today
However, it may be some consolation that the western visitors are third from the bottom with only four points from four outings.
The caricature of celebrity-friendly religions, of course, is that they are long on consolation and short on anything else, such as uncongenial moral codes or an actual God whose own celebrity, celeb-watching snarks suggest, might occasionally overshadow the star's own. Undefined
It precluded the possibility of appeasement or consolation. Times, Sunday Times
A chink of light arrived when Adebola headed a consolation on his Turf Moor debut with just five minutes left, reacting first when Robbie Blake's cross cannoned off a Watford knee.
What I can get by force I get by force, and what I do not get by force I have no right to, nor do I give myself airs, or consolation, with my imprescriptible right.
He went to seek consolation in the local pub.
Bayonne managed a consolation of sorts with a try from a pushover from the lineout. Times, Sunday Times
And deathbed rituals and religious consolations softened even the sting of death.
In the Holy Cross cemetery prayers continued the theme of hope and consolation.
He also won the consolation final of the 100 backstroke with a lifetime best time.
The only consolation is that no one takes a blind bit of notice of them. The Sun
His performance was one of the consolations of Ireland's mauling eight days ago and yesterday he accelerated the impression of an international career on the mend.
Even if mistreated, she could not come back to her parents for consolation or support.
Butcher or any one else whatever may conduce to her comfort and consolation, as it has long been my intention with the entire concurrence of my wife to remit a yearly or monthly allowance for the purpose abovementioned; and which I hope to explain at large immediately. Letter 105
Unhappiness with unplowed streets was strongest in the outer boroughs, and Bloomberg offered a consolation prize of sorts in the form a plan to allow some cabs to pick up street fares in outer boroughs. Dan Collins: Mayor Bloomberg Takes On Unions, Albany
That may sound like thin consolation for a party whose recent trend line looks a lot like the Dow: Not quite as reviled as we were in the aftermath of Watergate? Glass Half Full, Glass Half Empty
But his pride found some consolation in reflecting that, he and his son-in-law having been so lately in arms against government, it might give matter of reasonable fear and offence to the ruling powers if they were to collect together the kith, kin, and allies of their houses, arrayed in effeir of war, as was the ancient custom of Scotland on these occasions — ‘And, without dubitation,’ he concluded with a sigh, Waverley
At least we have the consolation of knowing that it will be possible for any of us at any given time to get on a bus, a boat or a plane, hop over to London, get gloriously blotto and sleep on his couch.
Ten runners-up received a T-shirt as a consolation prize.
His methods of consolation, his pulling of himself together -- it was all extremely commonplace, but then he was an essentially commonplace man, and saw things unconfusedly, one at a time, with no entanglement of motives or complicated searching for origins. The Wooden Horse
He wrote that the function of fantasy was ‘consolation’, thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.
O brother, it is an endless consolation to me, in this disorganic, as yet so quack-ridden, what you may well call hag - ridden and hell-ridden world, to find that disobedience to the Past and Present
Now that Villanueva is logging major minutes and simply getting it done, it's small consolation to recall that I was far from alone in murmuring, "What was that?" on draft day. USATODAY.com - Fantasy Focus: Say hello to the 'Sorry' Six
The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
We were drenched, cold, and in need of consolation. Christianity Today
I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation — deep, dark, deathlike solitude. Chapter 9
What kind of consolation is that for the 50 million Americans who have lost their homes or are struggling to pay off mortgages that are "underwater"? Robert Scheer: Payback at the Polls
It was Arc trials day and four big-race rides offered the prospect of consolation. Times, Sunday Times
The other woman, her voice lower, murmured some words of consolation to her friend.
The film breaks down idealized visions of family and religion, for in this house, they offer not consolation but despair.
County were granted a late consolation when referee Uriah Rennie harshly awarded a penalty against Nicky Southall after he handled Petri Helin's ball into the box following Kevin Nolan's miskick.
He has long loved and cheered me; but you, madam, who have never forgiven me the least fault, or praised any good act I may have done, though you knew by experience that it was not my wont to talk of love and mundane vanities, and that I lived a more religious life than any other of your servants, you have not hesitated from the first to take offence at my speaking to a gentleman as unfortunate as myself, and in whose friendship I sought nothing else than consolation of mind. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
They were outmanoeuvred for 70 minutes by a decent Dunfermline side, but a late burst of urgency brought them a consolation goal and made the last few minutes tense for the winners.
And what is the space of time to look backward upon, between an early departure and the longest survivance! — and what the consolation attending the sweet hope of meeting again, never more to be separated, never more to be pained, grieved, or aspersed; — but mutually blessing, and being blessed, to all eternity! Clarissa Harlowe
There is also the humble consolation of putting food in a hungry belly. The Times Literary Supplement
That's my only consolation, that there will be a chill in the air.
I derived no consolation from getting paid. Seminary Boy
Clayton scored a consolation try just before full time but it was too little too late.
The Consolation of Philosophy, a treatise by a 6th-century theologian, Boethius, includes a classic statement of one strand of Christian eudaimonism. Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
But the way she says it she makes it sound like a consolation prize. Times, Sunday Times
Did religion stand prophetically on the side of the poor demanding social justice (as some Christians believe Jesus did), or did religion forestall social reform, providing deadening consolation for economic injustice (as Karl Marx argued in speaking of religion as the “opiate of the masses”)? American Grace
The train driver explained the situation over the tannoy, adding that it might be some consolation to us to know that the safety equipment works.
If this sounds a bleak prospect, there is one germ of consolation. Times, Sunday Times
Providence may, indeed, sunder forever those dearest to each other, and the stricken soul accepts the blow as the righteous discipline of a Higher Power; but when the bereavement is the arbitrary dictate of human will, there are no such consolations to sanctify grief and assuage agony. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
While both teams in the gold medal game were guaranteed an Olympic berth, Puerto Rico and Canada were duking it out for the final berth in yesterday's consolation game.
They are guarded better by their calculations than a virgin by her mother and her convent; and they have invented the word caprice for that unbartered love which they allow themselves from time to time, for a rest, for an excuse, for a consolation, like usurers, who cheat Camille
Inexorable as you have proved to the fervency and sincerity of my vows, refuse me not, too cruel Anna, the solitary consolation of bidding you farewel! The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
his presence was a consolation to her
It was certainly a kind of consolation to the poor lady to feel that her husband had not departed unhouselled; but it is equally evident that her mind had given way, for the scenes that presently followed can be explained only on this assumption. 635 The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Meantime it gives us great consolation to know that you and our dear children are well.
His works present a critique of Victorian materialism yet also convey spiritual consolation, faith in humanity and in the power and goodness of great men.
She took to the consolations of snuff-dipping and fell from her pink-and-white estate. Judith of the Plains
If public sorrow can bring an alleviation to the grief of their friends, this consolation will be abundantly afforded. Times, Sunday Times
Quite rightly, the British public in general is grabbing what slender consolation it can from this perky little virus. Times, Sunday Times
Hitherto most philosophy, the illegitimate heir of religion, had been a consolation and an apology for the constraints and limits of human existence which were represented as necessary; it had therefore been a prop supporting the existing social order, just because its definitions of freedom had been abstract and had claimed some kind of unalterable necessity. Sartre's Cage
And if there is one consolation to spending a fortnight stuck in the jungle with an assortment of fruitcakes, it is that the experience makes you feel quite sane.
It precluded the possibility of appeasement or consolation. Times, Sunday Times
Let the sick and suffering find us real angels of comfort and consolation. Daily Readings with Mother Theresa
It's the great consolation for all the damnableness of the human existence. December Love
It was Arc trials day and four big-race rides offered the prospect of consolation. Times, Sunday Times
Still, he's got a few consolations, including his diary, the keeping of which began as an order from his father.
Still, it will have come as some consolation to Woods, as well as warning to those who have consigned him to the scrapheap, that when the day was done he was tied with the Irishman on the leaderboard and only one shot behind Mickelson, who flattered for a while before slipping back to two under par for 15 holes completed. Hunter Mahan quells the Blue Monster to emerge as the early leader
Gilbey’s goatswhey which is his prime consolation, albeit involving upon the same no uncertain amount of esophagous re — gurgitation, he being personally unpreoccupied to the extent of Finnegans Wake
Bayonne managed a consolation of sorts with a try from a pushover from the lineout. Times, Sunday Times
The only consolation is that a new series beckons and she will be the star of the show. Times, Sunday Times
When her mother died, she found consolation in her religious beliefs.
The only consolation was that this was a slight improvement on 1987 when Dagenham fell 14 percent short of target.
There is an unsettling realisation that the story, all stories, while tempting us with consolation and hope, in fact add to the world's misery.
Green scored from a penalty stroke and a fine open-play goal before Yvonne Ayshford got Midlands' consolation goal almost on time.
The only consolation for the team is that they get a chance to play the game again.
Craighton added a fifth for Chatteris and Dave Lee netted a consolation goal for the Shrimpers four minutes from time.
In the choices a lifetime offers he had ultimately left himself nowhere to turn except to the consolations of talk - anecdotage at its richest, in full flood.
Like Kathy, she had found great spiritual consolation at Holy Trinity in the wake of a broken marriage.
The one consolation is that temperatures are picking up after a cold end to April. Times, Sunday Times
The veteran remained thoughtful, taking some consolation from his briarwood and a steaming hot Scotch. A Pirate of Parts
But there was one consolation for the Athens badminton mixed doubles silver medallist. The Sun
In different ways, they've become disillusioned in respect of romantic love, have the rewards and consolations of religious and mystical experience and feel compelled to act responsibly.
If it's any consolation to you, you haven't snitched on anyone.
He was not seeking consolation, merely confiding how he saw his chances in a manner so matter-of-fact it was chilling. Times, Sunday Times
She wrote to him, and in the tenderest terms entreated he would reconcile himself to what was past, and as a consolation, to be thankful what he had so much feared had not happened, that she lived, and would never bring reproach on him; beseeched him, as he valued her peace of mind, not to think on her with regret, but to rejoice in her happiness. Simple Facts; or, the History of an Orphan
But they will be new bottles, when after the ascension of the Lord, they are renewed by desiring His consolation, and then new wine will come to the new bottles, that is, the fervour of the Holy Ghost will fill the hearts of spiritual men. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark
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All stories enwrapped in this literature have this attempt to find consolation in inevitability: the certainty of living with vestigial belief systems and adherences.
The consolation for the visiting support, however, was that after half-an-hour their team had at last posed a threat to the home defence.
It was finished, obviously, and he had to take consolation in the fine line be-tween biology and spirit.
The only consolation for the players as they go stir-crazy is that it's almost as bad back home.
The consolation here is that the garden is clean and unobjectionable, requiring no more than grass cutting from Graham and general weeding and pruning from me.

How To Use Consolation In A Sentence

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