All 4 Uses of
content
in
A Christmas Carol
- It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry.
Chpt 2 *content = satisfied
- The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content.
Chpt 3content = satisfaction
- "And how did little Tim behave?" asked Mrs. Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content.
Chpt 3
- But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.
Chpt 3contented = satisfied
Definition:
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(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied