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
He had hoped to provoke from the plaisant some further expression of self-content in his plans for the future, but the other had become guarded.
From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart
This was an amiable reflection and one that ministered greatly to his self-content.
From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir
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.
"Hearty," that is what they are; it is the good side of their self-content.
From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
