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

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.

Her wrinkled face and care-worn look tell a different tale from the pompous self-content of the merchant by her side, who drives as hard a bargain as she does.

From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett

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

Meantime, Van Vernet, in a state of exceeding self-content, was perfecting his latest plan.

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.