self-contented

Example Sentences

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The writing can’t get far enough out in front of the Holocaust not to drown in a self-contented sense of romance.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020

Another sacred kiss on that white head, and Tom was away for London, with a fuller purse, and a more self-contented heart too, than he had known for many a year.

From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Kingsley, Charles

In fact, he looked quite a hollow fellow, and apparently a selfish and self-contented one.

From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine

Each day to this small folk's a feast of fun; Not over-witty, self-contented, Still round and round in circle-dance they whirl, As with their tails young kittens twirl.

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy

He recognized his own personality apart from the personalities of the crowded throng through which he passed; he was a self-contented individual.

From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore