perfect contentment

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Hideg sat in perfect contentment, listening as the hottest new band in L.A. played “I Should Care,” a soulful standard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2023

“Pain and aches, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished.”

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Part of this essence came from Father Mike’s perfect contentment at being only five foot four.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He read as an old man unaccustomed to letters must read,—slowly and with a show of labor, but with perfect contentment as to his progress, and a brightening face.

From How John Norton the Trapper Kept His Christmas by Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)

In perfect contentment he followed the rigging, eyes upon the outhanging reach, for he was intent upon maintaining safe distance between this thing and himself.

From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus