All 20 Uses of
content
in
Great Expectations
- If only Estella had come to be a spectator of our proceedings, I should have felt sufficiently discontented; but as she brought with her the three ladies and the gentleman whom I had seen below, I didn't know what to do.†
Chpt 11 (definition 1)
- It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- I reflected that even in those untoward times there must have been latent in Biddy what was now developing, for, in my first uneasiness and discontent I had turned to her for help, as a matter of course.†
Chpt 17 (definition 1)
- For although Mr. Trabb had my measure already, and had previously been quite contented with it, he said apologetically that it "wouldn't do under existing circumstances, sir,—wouldn't do at all."†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- The letter was signed Trabb & Co., and its contents were simply, that I was an honored sir, and that they begged to inform me that Mrs. J. Gargery had departed this life on Monday last at twenty minutes past six in the evening, and that my attendance was requested at the interment on Monday next at three o'clock in the afternoon.†
Chpt 34 (definition 1)
- He watched me as I laid my purse upon the table and opened it, and he watched me as I separated two one-pound notes from its contents.†
Chpt 39 (definition 1)
- That he had left me at the forge,—far from contented, yet, by comparison happy!†
Chpt 39 (definition 1) *
- Mr. Wopsle, conceding his fin with a gracious dignity, was immediately shoved into a dusty corner, while everybody danced a hornpipe; and from that corner, surveying the public with a discontented eye, became aware of me.†
Chpt 47 (definition 1)
- It had been delivered by hand (of course, since I left home), and its contents were these:— "If you are not afraid to come to the old marshes to-night or tomorrow night at nine, and to come to the little sluice-house by the limekiln, you had better come.†
Chpt 52 (definition 1)
- It is so difficult to become clearly possessed of the contents of almost any letter, in a violent hurry, that I had to read this mysterious epistle again twice, before its injunction to me to be secret got mechanically into my mind.†
Chpt 52 (definition 1)
- I distinctly understood that he was working himself up with its contents to make an end of me.†
Chpt 53 (definition 1)
- He put his pipe back in his mouth with an undisturbed expression of face, and sat as composed and contented as if we were already out of England.†
Chpt 54 (definition 1)
- When his body was found, many miles from the scene of his death, and so horribly disfigured that he was only recognizable by the contents of his pockets, notes were still legible, folded in a case he carried.†
Chpt 55 (definition 1)
- These were its brief contents:— "Not wishful to intrude I have departured fur you are well again dear Pip and will do better without JO.†
Chpt 57 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- After this escape, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window's encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- If there had been time, I should probably have ordered several suits of clothes for this occasion; but as there was not, I was fain to be content with those I had.†
Chpt 32 (definition 2)
- When I woke up in the night,—like Camilla,—I used to think, with a weariness on my spirits, that I should have been happier and better if I had never seen Miss Havisham's face, and had risen to manhood content to be partners with Joe in the honest old forge.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
- So I put them round his neck, and she laid her head down on his shoulder quite content and satisfied.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)
- "Dear boy," he answered, "I'm quite content to take my chance.†
Chpt 54 (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.