Having failed hopelessly as a comforter, Charlie had hobbled to his corner, where his Christmas tree still stood, and, with that blessed forgetfulness of sorrow which childhood alone knows, had dragged forth his violin and begun a dismal screeching and scraping, a nerve-racking obligato to his foster sister's sobs.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
When anything grieved me, he was my comforter; and what though our affairs grew no better, yet I was tolerably easy, thinking his love sufficient recompense for the absence of all other worldly comforts.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It was faded, out of fashion by a full half-century, and his only luxury a silk comforter which he knotted loosely about his neck.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker