Word Finder - comforts

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Contentment, ease.

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Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.

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Something that offers comfort.

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the comforts of home

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A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.

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We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.

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A cause of relief or satisfaction.

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The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort: at least the independency was preserved.

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To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.

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Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.

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To make comfortable.

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To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

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To assist or help; to aid.

It has many Immortal comforts we care nothing for.

Her room on this planet contained none of her comforts.

Ten mostly D-list celebrities are abandoned in a remote jungle where they must perform tasks to earn creature comforts.

They conferred the signory upon him for life; and, had he not mismanaged matters, he might have held the city in his grasp. Italy was settling cown and turning her attention to home comforts, arts and literature.

Thus, you see, with my herbarium, my vibratory, and my semi-circumgyratory, I am in clover; and you may imagine with what scorn I think of the House of Commons, which, comfortable club as it is said to be, could offer me none of these comforts, or, more perfectly speaking, these necessaries of life."

Among the ruder or savage tribes they possess but one form; but the ingenuity of man has devised many inventions to increase his comforts; he has varied and multiplied the characters and kinds of domestic animals for the same purpose, and hence the various breeds of horses, cattle and dogs.

Cobden had, indeed, with unexampled devotion, sacrificed his business, his domestic comforts and for a time his health to the public interests.

The Key of Truth regards the water as a washing of the body, and sees in the rite no opus operatum, but an essentially spiritual rite in which "the king releases certain rulers a from the prison of sin, the Son calls them to himself and comforts them with great words, and the Holy Spirit of the king forthwith comes and crowns them, and dwells in them for ever."

At the Restoration he claimed to have sent money to the king at Oxford, to have provided the queen with comforts and necessaries and to have taken care of the royal children.

He held that the people, as distinguished from the nobles and the clergy, were the pith and fibre of nations; yet this same people had to become wax in the hands of the politician - their commerce and their comforts, the arts which give a dignity to life and the pleasures which make life liveable, neglected - their very liberty subordinated to the one tyrannical conception.

The simple offering of food or shedding of blood at the grave develops into an elaborate system of sacrifice; even where ancestor-worship is not found, the desire to provide the dead with comforts in the future life may lead to the sacrifice of wives, slaves, animals, &c., to the breaking or burning of objects at the grave or to the provision of the ferryman's toll, a coin put in the mouth of the corpse to pay the travelling expenses of the soul.

For three days after this the armies lay in position without fighting, the French well supplied with provisions and comforts from Breisach, the Bavarians suffering somewhat severely from want of food, and especially forage, as all their supplies had to be hauled from Villingen over the rough roads of the Black Forest.

He compelled the wealthy to share their riches with the indigent and helpless and to make them their equals in respect of all the comforts and conditions of life.

When the crews of the whale-boats were conveying stores, the forwarding officers tried to keep brandy and such like medical comforts from the European crews, coffee and tea from Canadian voyageurs and sugar from Kroo boys.

Carlyle, now that happier relations had been restored, did his best to give her the needed comforts; and in spite of his immersion in Frederick, showed her all possible attention in later years.

Every house possesses its staircase, its well, and cisterns for irrigation; and on the whole the Aryan Tajiks of this northern section of the Oxus valley seem to be well provided with most of the comforts, if not the luxuries, of life.

But Christiane gradually filled up a gap in the poet's life; she gave him, quietly, unobtrusively, without making demands on him, the comforts of a home.

Not so, but by following the new aim we shall also arrive at a true knowledge of the universe in which we are, for without knowledge there is no power; truth and utility are in ultimate aspect the same; " works themselves are of greater value as pledges of truth than as contributing to the comforts of life."

It need not, therefore, surprise us that the man who formulated the sum of virtue in justice and benevolence was unable to be just to his own kinsfolk and reserved his compassion largely for the brutes, and that the delineator of asceticism was more than moderately sensible of the comforts and enjoyments of life.

Man's duty is undoubtedly to join in the common service of sentient beings; but his final goal is to rise above the toils and comforts of the visible creature into the vast bosom of a peaceful Nirvana.

No faith was kept with the unhappy Richard; he was placed in close and secret confinement, and denied the ordinary comforts of life.

The demon closed the door—one of the Immortal comforts, for there were no doors in Hell—and left him to wonder how many men and women Sasha had in the bed before him.

I cannot quit the comforts of a settled abode to ramble over the fields wherever the flocks may require me to roam.

Our merit and progress consist not in many pleasures and comforts but rather in enduring great afflictions and sufferings.

Her few comforts are making up stories to tell her psychiatrist, the company of friends, and the sweet balm of whiskey.

Most tourists visit peninsula Malaysia with the west coast offering more in the way of creature comforts.

So if you are looking for a short stay and want creature comforts, don't choose this hotel when booking online.

Never having read a work by Mr Irving, Manne comforts himself repeatedly by calling him a " holocaust denier " .

The Black Boys Hotel has four newly decorated en-suite double bedrooms all attractively furnished in traditional style with modern comforts.

Without becoming much indebted, people can easily get themselves the comforts of life.

If a person lets his mind wander to external comforts, he becomes quite indisposed.

There is nothing that comforts and strengthens the heart so much as honest mirth, stimulated by good company.

But he was soon to find the lifestyle oppressive, despite the creature comforts.

Women today are increasingly opting to birth their baby the " old fashioned way " in the comforts of their own home.

We must not pillage our children's tomorrow for our comforts today.

Thus, although its amenities may be a bit rustic, the Green Tortoise attends assiduously to a wide variety of desirable creature comforts.

Unlike real hospital comforts, with a spring mattress, the bamboo slat sleeping platforms caused sores, of which I was a victim.

Early communication of basic needs empowers and comforts small babies, easing the often stormy period between 17 months and two years.

For these have need of such comforts more than the knights, being in sooth weary meager wights and forlorn.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

This is the reason he is poor; and for a similar reason we are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries.

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaining gross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

I one evening overtook one of my townsmen, who has accumulated what is called "a handsome property"--though I never got a fair view of it--on the Walden road, driving a pair of cattle to market, who inquired of me how I could bring my mind to give up so many of the comforts of life.

But despite all these measures the men, who had till then constituted an army, flowed all over the wealthy, deserted city with its comforts and plentiful supplies.

There were some that adopted all the army methods and had infantry, artillery, staffs, and the comforts of life.

And while the Spirit comforts saints, he reproves the world.

The preschool environment focuses on the comforts of home.

There may be days when you feel like your baby is living in his or her stroller, so you want as many extra comforts as possible.

General irritability - the infant may be 'difficult to handle' and not settle with the usual comforts offered by parents.