1 I glanced at my companion, and his face had assumed such a disconsolate expression that it was all I could do to keep my countenance.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 2 The middle one of the three windows was half-way open; and sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW 3 The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing-table.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 4 In one corner, near a small fire, sat an old man, leaning his head on his hands in a disconsolate attitude.
5 She had taken them out now, to adapt herself, I suppose, to the altered character of the house; and wore but one or two disconsolate bows of sober brown.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE 6 A few days after, Tom was standing musing by the balconies, when he was joined by Adolph, who, since the death of his master, had been entirely crest-fallen and disconsolate.
7 Tom rose, disconsolate, and stumbled into the cabin that had been allotted to him.
8 Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolate attitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John.
9 The street lamps gave a disconsolate and useless glimmer.
10 Having satisfied himself that there was no risk of immediate discovery he went back to the kitchen with a lighter step, and found Mattie disconsolately removing the last scraps of pickle from the floor.
11 "That's that," she thought, disconsolately looking down at the floor.
12 Oh, dear, I wish I hadn't asked you to speak, Mama, said May, looking disconsolately at the empty spaces on her table.
13 My thoughts strayed from that question as I looked disconsolately at the fire.
14 Through several succeeding days he saw her at different times from the window of his room moping disconsolately about the garden.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 15 The old servant returned to the caleche, looked into it, shook his head disconsolately, told the driver to turn into the yard, and stopped beside Mavra Kuzminichna.