His friends, too, he bound to him by even more than the proverbial hoops of steel, so that when they passed out of life they left him unconsolable.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
Those tears were trivial to the tears we've in shed later life, but those first tears moved me to almost unconsolable grief and the emotion caused a flow of poetry.
"Treading the Narrow Way"
R. E. Barrett
The Prince was left quite unconsolable, and declared that nothing should induce him to go back to his kingdom until he had found her again, and refusing to allow any of his courtiers to follow him, he mounted his horse and rode sadly away, letting the animal choose his own path.
"The Blue Fairy Book"
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