self-content

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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

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.]

The Englishman, armed in his panoply of self-content, and grasping facts with unequalled tenacity, goes on trampling upon acuter sensibilities, but somehow shouldering his way successfully through the troubles of the universe.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Meantime, Van Vernet, in a state of exceeding self-content, was perfecting his latest plan.

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.

It is too early for you to bother over problems of self-improvement—as for me it is too late; wherefore we are alike in the calm of our self-content.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Hendrick, Burton Jesse