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

You go serenely on your way, wrapped in a cloak of supreme self-content and satisfaction.

From Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story by Le Feuvre, Amy

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.

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There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament.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