Heretofore consciences were plagued with the doctrine of works, they did not hear the consolation from the Gospel. Some persons were driven by conscience into the desert, into monasteries hoping there to merit grace by a monastic life. Some also devised other works whereby to merit grace and make satisfaction for sins. Hence there was very great need to treat of, and renew, this doctrine of faith in Christ, to the end that anxious consciences should not be without consolation but that they might know that grace and forgiveness of sins and justification are apprehended by faith in Christ.英文原著 · 《The Augsburg Confession》
If I cannot get streaky bacon, I will do without anything. When Lupin rose to go I noticed a malicious smile creep over his face. I asked him what it meant. He replied: "Oh! only a little consolation - still it is a consolation. I have just remembered that, by MY advice, Mr. Murray Posh has invested 600 pounds in Parachikka Chlorates!"英文原著 · 《The Diary of a Nobody》
"My little friend," moaned she, "there are things I am not able to think about and which I can no longer entertain when Natacha embraces me. It is a mystery more frightful than all else. Koupriane tells me that he is sure, absolutely sure, of the agents he kept here; my sole consolation, do you see, my little friend can tell you frankly, now that you have sent away those men - my sole consolation since that day has been that Koupriane is less sure of his men than I am of Natacha."英文原著 · 《The Secret of the Night》
THOMAS PURENEY, Archbishop among Ordinaries, lived and preached in the heyday of Newgate. His was the good fortune to witness Sheppard's encounter with the topsman, and to shrive the battered soul of Jonathan Wild. Nor did he fall one inch below his opportunity. Designed by Providence to administer a final consolation to the evil-doer, he permitted no false ambition to distract his talent. As some men are born for the gallows, so he was born to thump the cushion of a prison pulpit; and his peculiar aptitude was revealed to him before he had time to spend his strength in mistaken endeavour.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
"Damme, yes," muttered Gillispie, feeling of his hip-pocket for consolation in his old manner.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
The old woman supplied twenty different answers to this question; but Caroline, next day, discerned the lines of long mental suffering on that brow that was so prompt to frown. The rather hollow cheeks of the Unknown bore the stamp of the seal which sorrow sets on its victims as if to grant them the consolation of common recognition and brotherly union for resistance. Though the girl's expression was at first one of lively but innocent curiosity, it assumed a look of gentle sympathy as the stranger receded from view, like a last relation following in a funeral train.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
Look, if it's any consolation, I now see how that could've happened to him.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Well, if it's any consolation, Carlos is a hands-on, full-time dad, And I still feel like I'm not getting the job done, Like... I'm not preparing them enough.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
oh, well, on one hand, I got dumped for a pair of headlights named brandy. on the other, I reported karl's credit cards stolen, and I cut the pockets out of all of his pants. so a little from column "a," a little from column "b." oh. (laughs) sorry. well, if it's any consolation, redheads are nuts.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》