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"He's there upstairs in the drawing-room, the very picture of disconsolateness."

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

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 Garland, Hamlin

You know I seldom waste time in blaming myself, and tarry but a brief space in the idle disconsolateness of repentance.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

"She didn't cry," reported the mother, with a disconsolateness that did not agree with the cheering words of the reports.

From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman

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




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