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Consolingly

adverb
1.
In a comforting or consoling manner.  Synonym: comfortingly.






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"Consolingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ade consolingly. "You see, the old duffer hasn't a tooth in his head, and he was ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

... do well enough," said Patty consolingly, "and if you don't, dad has a typewriter, and maybe he will let you use that, and if he won't I know Roy will let you write with his. It is only a little one, but ...
— Little Maid Marian • Amy E. Blanchard

... shaggy man, consolingly; "I ought to make enough soup to feed them all, I'm so big; so I'll ask them to put me in ...
— The Road to Oz • L. Frank Baum

... And there instantly returned to Leonard the recollection of Violante's words when, on leaving his quiet village, he had sighed to part from all those he loved; and the little dark-eyed girl had said, proudly, yet consolingly, "But to SERVE those you love!" He turned to L'Estrange, with beaming, ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... a shame, old fellow," said Tignol consolingly, "but we had to obey orders, eh? Never mind, ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett

... any more about it," said Frank consolingly. "Crying won't do any good, you know. Can you tell us where to find the wood-lane that cuts across to Blackburn Hill?" Maggie could, and gave us minute directions. So, having thanked her, we left her to pursue her disconsolate way and ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... Jane consolingly, "why can't we be waiting for them at the other side next week when they come up here? They're not apt to suspect motorcyclists they meet up here ...
— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston

... whispered the Steam, consolingly; "but, between you and me and the last cloud I came from, it was bound to happen sooner or later. You had to give a fraction, and you've given without knowing it. ...
— The Day's Work, Volume 1 • Rudyard Kipling

... wench is with her, and for the rest, Sir Walter and Lady Ashton have orders to supply her needs during her stay among them. She is treated with all honour, and is lodged in the best chambers," he added, consolingly. ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge

... must have had a good deal against you," she added consolingly. "Won't you sit down and tell me about it? Mr. Nairn, I understand, is writing some letters, and he sent for Mrs. Nairn just before you came in. I don't suppose she will be ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss

... word!" said Mrs. Lloyd, sympathetically. "But it sounds dee-licious!" she added consolingly, and little Mrs. Carew went contentedly home to a hot and furious session in her kitchen; hours of baking, boiling and frying, chopping and whipping and frosting, creaming and ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris

... marriage from a gay bird of the barnyard into a veritable hawk of the air. His behaviour was the scandal of the town, yet the greater his sins, the intenser grew Jane's sweetness, the more twining her hold. "Nobody will ever think of blaming you, darling," said Mrs. Carr consolingly. "You have behaved beautifully from the beginning. We all know what a perfect ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow

... she doesn't," said Grace consolingly. "She'll understand in time. As I was saying, I was so angry that I caught the old man by the arm and I said to him, 'If you think you're paid to lean up against a wall and not do your duty you're mightily mistaken, and if you aren't ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole



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