disconsolateness
Example Sentences
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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
Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness, "I'm miserable!"
From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake
At length, with almost a ludicrous aspect of disconsolateness, they slowly retired into the forest.
From Christopher Carson by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
‘Well, if you will not take care of me on a literal wild-goose chase,’ said Owen, with playful disconsolateness, ‘I’ll not answer for the consequences.’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
You may fancy what disconsolateness this condition--only to be called a consciousness floating in vacant space, with nothing to hold on to--brought to me.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
