self-contented
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The writing can’t get far enough out in front of the Holocaust not to drown in a self-contented sense of romance.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
When he rose he was very near to a lovely little face set on a fair long neck which he had been used to see turning about under the most perfect management of self-contented grace.
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Followed by Jill and Sally, her lame duck, Mavis went to the first of the hill-fields, where geese, scarcely out of their adolescence, clamoured about her hands with their soothing, self-contented piping.
From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can) Newte
Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
From Flatland: a romance of many dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Often Renfrew had heard Claire curse the smiling and self-contented Londoners who thronged the stalls of her theatre.
From Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens
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