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

"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

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

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

Edmund teased her several times, and would not let her settle down into her usual state of self-content, but after dinner she wisely took refuge with the merciful Rose.

From Great Possessions by Ward, Wilfrid, Mrs.