self-content

Example Sentences

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Cricket is linked with the Golden Age of English power and self-content, the idyll that supposedly existed before the First World War.

From Newsweek

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament.

From The Shepherd Psalm A Meditation by Evans, William

"I did see my way," said Brisket, with much self-content.

From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Trollope, Anthony

Already she was beginning to commend herself inwardly for her loyalty to her work, and Emma’s blunt arraignment of the dean of Overton College acted like a dash of cold water upon her half-fledged self-content.

From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

Purslow's apron was discarded, no longer did he come out to customers in the street; if he still rubbed one hand over the other it was in self-content.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.