solaced

Anyway, I solaced myself, it was not I but Ford that saved her, and I didn't have to feel like a hero.

Jack London:Surfing in Hawaii 2010

My current 102 fevered sinus infection misery demands comfort reading; yesterday Threshold solaced me and today is Low Red Moon.

"The lines of uncles dwindled, and the pirate stories stopped." greygirlbeast 2010

He solaced himself with the fact, should he remain, that more embarrassment awaited.

Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

He solaced himself with the fact, should he remain, that more embarrassment awaited.

THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

He solaced his fear with, "I ain't a ladies 'man."

Chapter 2 2010

In order to while away the time to some extent under depressing circumstances like these, I put into my diary on leaving Framheim a few loose leaves of a Russian grammar; Johansen solaced himself with a serial cut out of the Aftenpost; as far as I remember, the title of it was "The Red Rose and the White."

The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey 2009

I myself recall, from a grade-school of thirty years ago, a piece named “Piccola,” called so after a flower that pushed its way up through a crevice in a stone courtyard and solaced the man immured there—a general, of God knows what political coloration.

Calisher dead at 97 2009

“Peace to the spirits of my honoured parents, respected be their remains, and immortalized their virtues! may time, while it moulders their frail relicks to dust, commit to tradition the record of their goodness; and Oh, may their orphan-descendant be influenced through life by the remembrance of their purity, and be solaced in death, that by her it was unsullied!”

Cecilia 2008

Such was their disport; and now Gudrun was somewhat solaced of her grief.

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

They soon heard the passage clear, and, without deigning to listen to the petulant revilings with which young Halder solaced his foolish rage,

Camilla 2008