Example sentences of "[pers pn] no comfort " in BNC.

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1 Your proposal brings me no comfort whatever , but I suppose I have little alternative .
2 And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now .
3 Its familiar scent and roar gave her no comfort today .
4 In her experience , rigid and unloving church-going had given her no comfort , no sustenance .
5 Albert smiled at her but so sadly that it brought her no comfort .
6 It gave her no comfort .
7 But it gave him no comfort .
8 He did not know that Isambard , unsure of the numbers with which he had to deal , and always thorough , had brought forty men to sustain the assault against his dozen ; and even if he had known it would have brought him no comfort .
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