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

Since I crossed the Tigris, I know not that I have felt such self-content.

From Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Abraham sat down, cross-legged, and watched with impish self-content while David strode back and forth in the patio.

From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max

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.

It is perhaps useless to quarrel with the tendency of mankind to turn its eyes from disagreeable subjects, and to dwell complacently upon those which minister to self-content.

From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)