solacing

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Solacing his indignation by an oath, Captain Wragge sullenly went into one of the parlors on the ground-floor to look after his wife.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

Solacing his self-reproaches a little by such arguments and reflections, he had gone to work in earnest to make such discoveries as would drive these harassing doubts away forever.

From A Noble Woman by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Solacing to human envy;—explaining also, to the dark human intellect, why this King had commonly no Women at his Court.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas

Sinai, and the celestial Sidonia who talks about the "Sublime and Solacing Doctrine of Theocratic Equality,"--all these are passages where we wonder whether the author sneered or blushed when he wrote.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright