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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.

The pope solaced himself, however, with pouring out his grief at full length in letters to the German prelates.

But if Hessie were a happy wife, why, I could support myself and live in peace and independence, blessed with congenial occupation, solaced by the love and joy of my art.

John Herschel possessed this endowment to a large extent; and he solaced his declining years with the translation of the Iliad into verse, having earlier executed a similar version of Schiller’s Walk.

Yet no movement of the table took place, and we were consequently all the more solaced when we learned that the figure communicated had been a cipher.