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

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

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament.

From The Shepherd Psalm A Meditation by Evans, William

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

Already she was beginning to commend herself inwardly for her loyalty to her work, and Emma’s blunt arraignment of the dean of Overton College acted like a dash of cold water upon her half-fledged self-content.

From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]