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
"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
This self-content of his kept him in general good humour, of which his friends and dependants got the benefit.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
His only expression was that of haughty self-content; but there was no real pride in his bearing, and no reserve.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
There is little food for self-content when all that is best and worst comes out; but there is much food for thought.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir
