Sentence examples for seeking to console from inspiring English sources

Seeking to console Alexander, the wisest of his counsellors said, "Perhaps, master, what you truly seek is not to conquer but to be conquered".

A bereaved Northern Irish police officer seeks to console an old woman for the loss of a grandson.

Seeing that Mr. Emmed was distraught at what they had just done, Father von Wernich sought to console him.

He sought to console the bereaved, comfort the wounded, encourage the heroic, calm the fearful and, by no means incidentally, rally the country for the struggle and sacrifice ahead.

In doing so we seek to comfort and console you".

Her parents try to console her.

I began to try to console him.

One attempt to console me was most direct.

So I try to console the others.

You can also try to console them.

"Let me not so much seek to be consoled, as to console... to be loved as to love," says the St. Francis prayer.