Solace

Usage examples of comfort.

He had tasted a Divino Abbandono once and he found the picture a comfort.

It was comforting to realize that this river had been crossing Absarokee hunting ground since before they had horses.

From Philadelphia, Adams wrote to Abigail to express his grief and the wish that he had been at Quincy to give her help and comfort.

As efforts were made to give Adams more comfort, by changing his position, he awakened.

Now the Adar of the Ildiran Solar Navy was becoming blind and deaf to a comforting foundation he had always taken for granted.

We attempt to appreciate it aesthetically, and so to assert a comforting aesthetic distance.

They were that much closer to the border on the Limpopo River, and to Sean the sound of Afrikaans was a comfort and a promise.

A black woman with an afro hairstyle is bending down to comfort one of the victims.

Rostow, Mac, Bundy and Hot Stick were standing by with their weapons pointed at the congregation of Aguaruna as casually as it could be done without being rude, trying to provide comfort for Felix, who crouched next to the Stele, perspiring heavily over a soldering iron, a converter and a picnic cooler full of two dozen size-D batteries.

Grabbing ahold of her soft hand, he turned his head, kissing her palm, seeking comfort in the gesture.

Even while Miss Airedale gazed archly up at him, and he was busy with cheerful conversation, he was conscious of that broad band of perfect colour, monotonous, comforting, thrilling.

He took some comfort in the fact that Sam or Katelynn would care for the Akita as if he were their own, and that got him focused again on the problem at hand.

And with so many familiar, comforting concepts already lost, Alice naturally begins to sense her frightening isolation, her alienation from the self-defining constructs of above-ground culture.

It is better to be at the head of the commonalty than dragging in the rear of the gentry, and for substantial comfort, liberal housekeeping, generous almsgiving, and frank hospitality, the farmhouse of Allendale was out and out superior to the mansion of Moss Tower, where the Dalzells had lived for at least two centuries.

In order to comfort her, the Duc du Maine has discovered an expedient which greatly amuses us, and never fails of its effect.