disconsolateness

Example Sentences

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You know I seldom waste time in blaming myself, and tarry but a brief space in the idle disconsolateness of repentance.

From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny

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

From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake

At length, with almost a ludicrous aspect of disconsolateness, they slowly retired into the forest.

From Christopher Carson by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

His look bespoke the unquietness of his mind, and frequently wandered with an expression of disconsolateness and anxiety.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

As for me, instead of desolating, the harsh disconsolateness of the scene seemed to uplift me; I savoured it with joy, as one savours the melancholy of a tragic work of art.

From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Bennett, Arnold