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The true disconsolateness is to desire and to accept consolation; why will not one then for once just go through with the pang out and out without any physic?

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

She heard Miss Madigan's gasp of horror, and could imagine the fishy disconsolateness of her expression.

From The Madigans by Orson Lowell

She broke down there; she is now home again at Chelsea, a cheery, amiable younger Jane Welsh to nurse her: the tone of her Letters is still full of disconsolateness.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle

Ed looked singularly awkward and lonesome as he sat sprawled out in one of the low seats, and curiously enough his uncouthness and disconsolateness of attitude won her heart back again.

From Prairie Folks by Hamlin Garland

If I emerge from myself, disconsolateness everywhere, spread all over the world.

From Woman by Magdeleine Marx




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