Word: comfortingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...west coast airplanes hunted for signs of wreckage or the bodies of the 50 fishermen of Killala, Cleggan Bay, Inishkea. The sea, as if offering an ironic apology, rolled up eight corpses on the sand. To the men who had drowned, Father Quinn granted conditional absolution. He tried to comfort 200 members of their families, and he listened to an improbable story which was being told in all the villages. Some fishermen said that early in the week a white ship had overtaken their fleet in Baffin Bay. Making no answer to their hails, she had lingered near their boats...
...last hope is gone. What can I do now?" asked the boy when told of the decision. He moped at home. His father tried to cheer him until calls from patients took him away. The mother tried to comfort her boy but was obliged to leave for an appointment. Alone, he drank a bathroom germicide and died quickly...
Tourists may come now across the Hudson River at any time of the day or night, winter or summer, in comfort and without delay, the bridge being normally open to traffic 24 hours each day of the year, winter or summer...
...feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there. He longed to return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother-aunt added: "Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet. I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg." And Hamlet, distraught and upset, stayed away from college...
...work of the League be regarded as it was by Woodrow Wilson in the light of a panacea for all international ills, there is little comfort in the record of the past eight years. Overlook the work of the Conventions as the people do, and the one achievement of the League of Nations is that it meets...