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

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)

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

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

Over all the landscape there is a look of plaintive uncontent.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

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