All 40 Uses of
content
in
War and Peace
- And I am so contented and happy with him.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to write, told Rostov the contents of his letter.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- On the day of Prince Vasili's arrival, Prince Bolkonski was particularly discontented and out of temper.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- There's Lise, married to Andrew—a better husband one would think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her lot?†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Anna Mikhaylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, on condition that she should tell no one.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- A quarter of an hour later the old count came in from his Club, cheerful and contented.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- The day was so beautiful, the sun so bright, everything around so gay, but that slim pretty girl did not know, or wish to know, of his existence and was contented and cheerful in her own separate—probably foolish—but bright and happy life.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- At dinner the conversation did not cease for a moment and seemed to consist of the contents of a book of funny anecdotes.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Rostov had become a bluff, good-natured fellow, whom his Moscow acquaintances would have considered rather bad form, but who was liked and respected by his comrades, subordinates, and superiors, and was well contented with his life.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- I know that no better man than he exists, and I am calm and contented now.†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- In moments of pride, when he thought of his position it seemed to him that he was quite different and distinct from those other retired gentlemen-in-waiting he had formerly despised: they were empty, stupid, contented fellows, satisfied with their position, "while I am still discontented and want to do something for mankind.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- In moments of pride, when he thought of his position it seemed to him that he was quite different and distinct from those other retired gentlemen-in-waiting he had formerly despised: they were empty, stupid, contented fellows, satisfied with their position, "while I am still discontented and want to do something for mankind.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- —he had cheerfully taken up his familiar business, and—like a well-fed but not overfat horse that feels himself in harness and grows skittish between the shafts—he dressed up in clothes as variegated and expensive as possible, and gaily and contentedly galloped along the roads of Poland, without himself knowing why or whither.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- Napoleon was in that well-known after-dinner mood which, more than any reasoned cause, makes a man contented with himself and disposed to consider everyone his friend.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- And since it had to be so, Nicholas Rostov, as was natural to him, felt contented with the life he led in the regiment and was able to find pleasure in that life.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- …when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- Having wrung a submissive "I understand" from Dron, Alpatych contented himself with that, though he not only doubted but felt almost certain that without the help of troops the carts would not be forthcoming.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- "Would not your Serene Highness like to come inside?" said the general on duty in a discontented voice, "the plans must be examined and several papers have to be signed."†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- The beekeeper closes the hive, chalks a mark on it, and when he has time tears out its contents and burns it clean.†
Chpt 11 (definition 1)
- Something was boiling in a small cauldron at the edge of the fire and a soldier in a peaked cap and blue overcoat, lit up by the fire, was kneeling beside it stirring its contents with a ramrod.†
Chpt 14 (definition 1)
- Kutuzov rode to Dobroe on his plump little white horse, followed by an enormous suite of discontented generals who whispered among themselves behind his back.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- Now a smile at the joy of life always played round his lips, and sympathy for others, shone in his eyes with a questioning look as to whether they were as contented as he was, and people felt pleased by his presence.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- Yes, it is he, happy and contented….†
Chpt 15 (definition 1) *
- Nicholas, who had left his nephew, irritably pushed up an armchair, sat down in it, and listened to Pierre, coughing discontentedly and frowning more and more.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask thyself whether thou art content with thyself.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- Are you content with yourself and with your life?†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- During this journey he, as it were, considered his life afresh and arrived at his old conclusion, restful in its hopelessness: that it was not for him to begin anything anew—but that he must live out his life, content to do no harm, and not disturbing himself or desiring anything.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Anatole was always content with his position, with himself, and with others.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- …when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- Let them cut the crops and burn wood to their hearts' content.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- He understood that for him the storm had blown over, and that Kutuzov would content himself with that hint.†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- But whether because he had not been content to take only one Frenchman or because he had slept through the night, he had crept by day into some bushes right among the French and, as Denisov had witnessed from above, had been detected by them.†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- In the first case, if inevitability were possible without freedom we should have reached a definition of inevitability by the laws of inevitability itself, that is, a mere form without content.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- In the second case, if freedom were possible without inevitability we should have arrived at unconditioned freedom beyond space, time, and cause, which by the fact of its being unconditioned and unlimited would be nothing, or mere content without form.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- Inevitability without content is man's reason in its three forms.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- Freedom is the content.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2) *
- Only by separating the two sources of cognition, related to one another as form to content, do we get the mutually exclusive and separately incomprehensible conceptions of freedom and inevitability.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- Apart from these two concepts which in their union mutually define one another as form and content, no conception of life is possible.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- And as the undefinable essence of the force moving the heavenly bodies, the undefinable essence of the forces of heat and electricity, or of chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, and so on, just in the same way does the force of free will form the content of history.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- And as the undefinable essence of the force moving the heavenly bodies, the undefinable essence of the forces of heat and electricity, or of chemical affinity, or of the vital force, forms the content of astronomy, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, and so on, just in the same way does the force of free will form the content of history.†
Chpt 15 (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.