uncontent

Example Sentences

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There was a time for youth's fiery passions, its ecstatic uncontent, and there was also most assuredly a time when those fevers should cease.

From Daisy's Aunt by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

He showed, not as a happy creature of the flesh, but as a creature of the flesh made uncontent, divinely pierced by the sharp flame of the spirit.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

He is disturbed, thrilled, uncontent A new ideal rises.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

Had you, my love, but urged me upward, to glory and God, I might have been uncontent; I might have done it for you.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

Still, she was not entirely uncontent: she must have had some perception that her performance merely as a notable bit of reportorial art—did not wholly lack style, even if her attire did.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth