uncontent

Example Sentences

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But the heart of the farmer was full of the old uncontent, the old longing after the heart of his boy, that had never learned to cry "Father!"

From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George

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

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

My first original sermon was on "Enoch and Columbus," and my second on "Content, discontent, and uncontent."

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen

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