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

From Woman by Magdeleine Marx

In her disconsolateness she went to Madame de Maintenon, who said the King was keeping silence on the subject, and it was not advisable to remind him of it.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Although he had resolved to return to Spain in the same ship, because of the disconsolateness of his parents at his departure, he changed his mind, and finished his novitiate in Manila.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

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

From The Madigans by Orson Lowell

Cope himself, when his father questioned him, said with frank disconsolateness, "I'm miserable!"

From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller




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