All 28 Uses of
content
in
Wuthering Heights
- I blushed at my inconsideration: but, without showing further consciousness of the offence, I hastened to add — 'The truth is, sir, I passed the first part of the night in — ' Here I stopped afresh — I was about to say 'perusing those old volumes,' then it would have revealed my knowledge of their written, as well as their printed, contents; so, correcting myself, I went on — 'in spelling over the name scratched on that window-ledge.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Hindley and Cathy contented themselves with looking and listening till peace was restored: then, both began searching their father's pockets for the presents he had promised them.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- I fancied the discontent of age and disease arose from his family disagreements; as he would have it that it did: really, you know, sir, it was in his sinking frame.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Mr. Earnshaw, provided he saw him healthy and never heard him cry, was contented, as far as regarded him.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- I interrupted, dragging the pillow away, and turning the holes towards the mattress, for she was removing its contents by handfuls.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- The contents of the pan began to boil, and he turned to plunge his hand into the bowl; I conjectured that this preparation was probably for our supper, and, being hungry, I resolved it should be eatable; so, crying out sharply, 'I'll make the porridge!'†
Chpt 13 (definition 1)
- I was so vexed, I flung my tray and its contents on the ground; and then seated myself at the stairs'-head, hid my face in my hands, and cried.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1)
- Whatever be your notion of Mr. Edgar, you cannot doubt that she has a capacity for strong attachments, or she wouldn't have abandoned the elegancies, and comforts, and friends of her former home, to fix contentedly, in such a wilderness as this, with you.'†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- Heathcliff had opened the trinket and cast out its contents, replacing them by a black lock of his own.†
Chpt 16 (definition 1)
- Wuthering Heights and Mr. Heathcliff did not exist for her: she was a perfect recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- One day, as she inspected this drawer, I observed that the playthings and trinkets which recently formed its contents were transmuted into bits of folded paper.†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- Having opened, I emptied the whole contents into my apron, and took them with me to examine at leisure in my own chamber.†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- You're too young to rest always contented, living by yourself; and I some way fancy no one could see Catherine Linton and not love her.†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- Regardless of this warning, she captured his closed hand and its contents again.†
Chpt 27 (definition 1)
- She didn't thank him; still, he felt gratified that she had accepted his assistance, and ventured to stand behind as she examined them, and even to stoop and point out what struck his fancy in certain old pictures which they contained; nor was he daunted by the saucy style in which she jerked the page from his finger: he contented himself with going a bit farther back and looking at her instead of the book.†
Chpt 30 (definition 1)
- She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute, bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming earnestness.†
Chpt 32 (definition 1)
- Catherine, contented at first, in a brief space grew irritable and restless.†
Chpt 32 (definition 1) *
- I uttered an ejaculation of discontent at seeing the dismal grate, and commenced shutting the casements, one after another, till I came to his.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)
- You must have forgotten the contents of the book, and you may not have space to search it now.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- I said: 'you'll never be content till you're sent about your business.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- However, if I am to follow my story in true gossip's fashion, I had better go on; and instead of leaping three years, I will be content to pass to the next summer — the summer of 1778, that is nearly twenty-three years ago.'†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- 'A pity,' observed I. 'You're hard to please; so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content!'†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Be content, you always followed me!'†
Chpt 12 (definition 2) *
- 'In general I'll allow that it would be, Ellen,' she continued; 'but what misery laid on Heathcliff could content me, unless I have a hand in it?†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- It's a pity she could not be content.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- 'You'll be content with the cushion, Master Heathcliff.†
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, till Catherine crossed his path.†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- …to weary myself with imagining some fit parentage for him; and, repeating my waking meditations, I tracked his existence over again, with grim variations; at last, picturing his death and funeral: of which, all I can remember is, being exceedingly vexed at having the task of dictating an inscription for his monument, and consulting the sexton about it; and, as he had no surname, and we could not tell his age, we were obliged to content ourselves with the single word, 'Heathcliff.'†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.