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Silver lining

noun

A consoling aspect of a difficult situation. Synonym: bright side. "Look on the bright side of it"

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"Silver lining" Quotes from Famous Books

... years she went away upon her Boston trips more and more rarely, but she writes after her return from one of them in 1868: "I don't think I ever enjoyed Boston so much as in this visit. Why was it! Every cloud seemed to turn out its silver lining, everybody was delightful, and the music has really done me good. I feel it all over me now. I think of it with a sober certainty of waking bliss! our little 'hub' is a grand 'hub.' Three cheers for it!... I have had sent me through the War Department a French poem which I think is ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

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... Hour, more loved and lovely Than all thy sisters, this is the mystic shell; 70 See the pale azure fading into silver Lining it with a soft yet glowing light: Looks it not like lulled music ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

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... passed rapidly for the blissful young Jenisons. The letters from the far West were full of promise. Even the skeptical David was compelled to admit to himself that the silver lining was discernible against the black cloud that Mary Braddock had so deliberately set ...

— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon

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... mentioned just now, having reached Seoul, had been dispatched again immediately, under General Oshima, to Asan to attack the garrison there. They met a small force of our soldiers four days later, at Song-hwan, and, I am sorry to say, defeated them; and the only silver lining to our cloud lies in the surprise those Japanese will receive when they find themselves met at Asan by seven thousand of our men, instead of only the small garrison of the place; for it is not very likely that Oshima's force, being on the march, will have heard either of the naval battle, or of our ...

— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood

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Words linked to "Silver lining" : consolation, solace, solacement