It is perfectly natural, therefore, to weep over our dead, even when every thing in their departure is consolatory and beautiful.
As he himself said, great suffering alone explained this need of illusion, this blossoming of eternal and consolatory hope.
God means us to feel; and—precious, soothing, consolatory thought!
He sought his friend and counsel, Rereworth, but without obtaining any consolatory information.
It may have seemed at once amusing and consolatory to find that all were tarred with the same brush.