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

As Dick climbed in beside her, she bent her head to Lestrange; if she had regretted her impulsive confidence, again the clear sanity and calm of the gray eyes she encountered established self-content.

From The Flying Mercury by Frederick, Edmund

This was an amiable reflection and one that ministered greatly to his self-content.

From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir

"And yet I envy them for what they do not know, for what they do not see, for their self-content."

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.

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