condole
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There will be time to collectively mourn, condole and rebuild, when they no longer are, when all communities are safe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
I will definitely miss him and I condole with his family, his BBC fans and the BBC family.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2014
She played golf with him;, was always around to congratulate him or condole over his score.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had assembled to condole with a martyr.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rat râjâ entered first to condole with his protector on his misfortune.
From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Mrs. Howard Kingscote
Her team listens, condoles with the families and tries to humanise the situation.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
In his best vestryman's voice, T. S. Eliot restates his cultured disenchantment with the wartime world and condoles with humanity, shivering in "the cold wind That blows before and after time."
From Time Magazine Archive
Imagining nothing idler than words in the face of grave events, he condoles and congratulates with the genteelest air in the world.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
Friends come weeping again, and the minister condoles them with the sad old story of God's inscrutable ways.
While the billow mournful rolls, And the mermaid's song condoles, Singing glory to the souls Of the brave!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Marcos Jr. visited Ramos’ wake Thursday and condoled with the family of Ramos, who, he said, “was a symbol of stability after all the tumultuous events of 1986.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
They condoled with her for the hate mail.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2019
"Mr. American, how come you haven't even condoled?"
From US News ● Oct. 22, 2014
Last week tough old Atheist Clemenceau, 87, followed Death to the house of Christian Foch, 77, and condoled privily with Mme. la Marechale.
From Time Magazine Archive
She begged her to say how much she condoled with me upon it, and what a dreadful affair it was.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Lukashenko placed red roses at Makei’s coffin before his burial Tuesday and briefly touched the dead man’s arm, gazing at him for a few moments, dry-eyed, before condoling with Makei’s family.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
Now, I’m very sad to be condoling with his family and friends.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2020
These days you’ll see that condoling frowny face on nearly TV-news emissary.
From Time ● Oct. 31, 2014
They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Narrow as was Clies's escape on this occasion, not four months elapsed before the postmasters-general were again condoling with him on another "very tedious voyage."
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
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"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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"The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs
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