consolatorily

"They'll be sure to reverse the decision on appeal," he whispered consolatorily to his employer's wife.

Together Robert Herrick 1903

[Gathering her to him, and babbling consolatorily] Cry on my chest: the only really comfortable place for a woman to cry is a man's chest: a real man, a real friend.

John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

I would now have looked for those others, but knowing my intention by my gesture, he said consolatorily, 'Sleep is on his way to the Earth, where many are calling him; but it is not to these he hastens, for every call only makes him fly further off.

The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Stephen Coleridge 1895

On her return from the poor lady racked with headache and lying little conscious of her husband's powder-barrel under the bed, Jane found her patient being worried by his official nurse, a farm-labourer's wife, a bundle of a woman, whose lumbering assiduities he fenced with reiterated humourous negatives to every one of her propositions, until she prefaced the last two or three of the list with a 'Deary me!' addressed consolatorily to herself.

Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

On her return from the poor lady racked with headache and lying little conscious of her husband's powder-barrel under the bed, Jane found her patient being worried by his official nurse, a farm-labourer's wife, a bundle of a woman, whose lumbering assiduities he fenced with reiterated humourous negatives to every one of her propositions, until she prefaced the last two or three of the list with a 'Deary me!' addressed consolatorily to herself.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

On her return from the poor lady racked with headache and lying little conscious of her husband's powder-barrel under the bed, Jane found her patient being worried by his official nurse, a farm-labourer's wife, a bundle of a woman, whose lumbering assiduities he fenced with reiterated humourous negatives to every one of her propositions, until she prefaced the last two or three of the list with a 'Deary me!' addressed consolatorily to herself.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

I would now have looked for those others; but knowing my intention by my gesture, he said, consolatorily:

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819