"Don't be a child," Katrine consoles her: "the matter was of no great consequence."
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
Stasy consoles herself for her friend's capricious injustice by taking two glasses of cordial, three sandwiches, and half a dozen little cakes.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
Pliny feels this acutely, but he consoles himself by the reflection that he has been liberal in manumission, and still more liberal in allowing his slaves to make their wills, the validity of which he maintains as if they were legal instruments.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill