1.   But she does have words for her husband, comforting words.

2.   Comforting words, to be sure.

3.   Comforting words that Reynolds has never heard from her own mother.

4.   If extra shooting could not draw him out of a slump, perhaps comforting words could.

5.   Sometimes, he says, patients respond positively if they trust their doctors, or even if their physicians offer a few comforting words.

6.   Teammate after teammate came by to whisper comforting words, quarterback Randall Cunningham talking to Anderson at length.

7.   To the Bulldog faithful, comforting words indeed.