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

But P�khtin was refreshing, self-contented, and gaily amiable, as always.

From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Once he thought of flight; but the reflection that he would still abandon his brother to shame, perhaps a self-contented shame, checked him hopelessly.

From The Twins of Table Mountain by Harte, Bret

The man was so prosperous, so self-contented, so conscious of his own merit and success.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John

She seems to have been largely unconscious of her declension; self-occupied and self-contented, she scarcely noticed His absence; she was resting, resting alone,—never asking where He had gone, or how He was employed.

From Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by Taylor, James Hudson