solaced

They solaced their wretchedness, however, by duets after supper, while he could find no better relief to his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that every possible attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister.

She gets the theater-geek details right, the way the students “who couldn’t sing or dance solaced themselves with Uta Hagen, Beckett and Shakespeare. They reminded themselves they were serious Theatre Artists, that Broadway was cheeseball one end to the other.”

I’m sure she solaced herself by being convinced that some misfit Maingault or Mortemar had got mixed up with the lodge-keeper’s daughter.

The experience "solaced" her and "gave her an idea not just of how to survive or override her most powerful feelings, but of how to transmute them into art," Harman writes.

In those days when it was fashionable to court across the river, Jem was so helplessly in love with a girl from Abbott County he seriously considered spending his senior year at Abbottsville High, but was discouraged by Atticus, who put his foot down and solaced Jem by advancing him sufficient funds to purchase a Model-A coupe.