| 1. | Dismiss them not disconsolate reveal. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Then starting up, disconsolate he goe. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | In one corner, near a small fire, sat an old man, leaning his head on his hands in a disconsolate attitude. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 4. | There was a rich widow disconsolate for the loss of her seventh husband, and to her wounded spirit I offered the balm of my vows. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 5. | 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. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | At last, on the tenth day, the disconsolate mother met Hecate, who informed her that she had heard her daughter's cries, but knew not who it was that had borne her away. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 7. | 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. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 8. | At length Zeus sent Hermes, his faithful messenger, to the lower world with a petition to Ades, urgently entreating him to restore Persephone to the arms of her disconsolate mother. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 9. | "Do not despair," said he to the disconsolate Candide, "I understand a little of the jargon of these people, I will speak to them.. - from Candide by Voltaire |