All 37 Uses of
content
in
Bleak House
- ,* the recorded opinions and experiences of distinguished medical professors, French, English, and Scotch, in more modern days, contenting myself with observing that I shall not abandon the facts until there shall have been a considerable spontaneous combustion of the testimony on which human occurrences are usually received.†
Chpt Pref. (definition 1)
- Dear, dear, to think how much time we passed alone together afterwards, and how often I repeated to the doll the story of my birthday and confided to her that I would try as hard as ever I could to repair the fault I had been born with (of which I confessedly felt guilty and yet innocent) and would strive as I grew up to be industrious, contented, and kind-hearted and to do some good to some one, and win some love to myself if I could.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- I often thought of the resolution I had made on my birthday to try to be industrious, contented, and true-hearted and to do some good to some one and win some love if I could; and indeed, indeed, I felt almost ashamed to have done so little and have won so much.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- I had received a formal answer acknowledging its receipt and saying, "We note the contents thereof, which shall be duly communicated to our client."†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- She was still standing by the bed, and now stooped down (but still with the same discontented face) and kissed Ada.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- The discontented goose, who stoops to pass under the old gateway, twenty feet high, may gabble out, if we only knew it, a waddling preference for weather when the gateway casts its shadow on the ground.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- Every part of the house was in such order, and every one was so attentive to me, that I had no trouble with my two bunches of keys, though what with trying to remember the contents of each little store-room drawer and cupboard; and what with making notes on a slate about jams, and pickles, and preserves, and bottles, and glass, and china, and a great many other things; and what with being generally a methodical, old-maidish sort of foolish little person, I was so busy that I could not…†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- It was not merely that they were weazened and shrivelled—though they were certainly that too—but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- Submitting, however, with a good grace to the caution that we had shown to be so necessary, he contented himself with sitting down among us in his lightest spirits and talking as if his one unvarying purpose in life from childhood had been that one which now held possession of him.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- Beholding him in which glow of contentment, Mr. Guppy says, "You are a man again, Tony!"†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1)
- "I see the marshes once," says Phil, contentedly eating his breakfast.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- Mr. George, slowly putting down his saucer without tasting its contents, is laughingly beginning, "Why, what the deuce, Phil—" when he stops, seeing that Phil is counting on his dirty fingers.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 1)
- And Sir Leicester is glad to repose in dignified contentment before the great fire in the library, condescendingly perusing the backs of his books or honouring the fine arts with a glance of approbation.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- I don't think I did blush—at all events, it was not important if I did—and I said my present fortune perfectly contented me and I had no wish to change it.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 1)
- The childish prayer of that old birthday when I had aspired to be industrious, contented, and true-hearted and to do good to some one and win some love to myself if I could came back into my mind with a reproachful sense of all the happiness I had since enjoyed and all the affectionate hearts that had been turned towards me.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- "Once more, duty, duty, Esther," said I; "and if you are not overjoyed to do it, more than cheerfully and contentedly, through anything and everything, you ought to be.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 1)
- Winking cousins, bat-like in the candle glare, crowd round to give it; Volumnia (always ready for something better if procurable) takes another, a very mild sip of which contents her; Lady Dedlock, graceful, self-possessed, looked after by admiring eyes, passes away slowly down the long perspective by the side of that nymph, not at all improving her as a question of contrast.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- When she is gone, he goes down too, and returning with his cobweb-covered bottle, devotes himself to a leisurely enjoyment of its contents, now and then, as he throws his head back in his chair, catching sight of the pertinacious Roman pointing from the ceiling.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- He was contented, you will say.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 1) *
- Still I cried very much, not only in the fullness of my heart after reading the letter, not only in the strangeness of the prospect— for it was strange though I had expected the contents—but as if something for which there was no name or distinct idea were indefinitely lost to me.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 1)
- I was not grieved for myself: I was quite contented and quite happy.†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)
- How much less amiable I must have been than they thought me, how much less amiable than I thought myself, to be so preoccupied with my own cheerfulness and contentment as to think that it only rested with me to put my dear girl right and set her mind at peace!†
Chpt 49-51 (definition 1)
- It is thought better that his old housekeeper should give him Lady Dedlock's letter, the contents of which no one knows or can surmise.†
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)
- It was not too late to hear them, for it was not too late to be animated by them to be good, true, grateful, and contented.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 1)
- I took it from the place where I kept it, and repeated its contents by its own clear light of integrity and love, and went to sleep with it on my pillow.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 1)
- "Kenge," said my guardian, "if all the flourishing wealth that the suit brought into this vile court of Chancery could fall to my two young cousins, I should be well contented.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 1)
- I had no doubt of your being contented and happy with me, being so dutiful and so devoted; but I saw with whom you would be happier.†
Chpt 64-65 (definition 1)
- Still, she is more than contented and does all she has to do with all her heart.†
Chpt 66-67 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- From that hour I felt quite easy with him, quite unreserved, quite content to know no more, quite happy.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- "How was that?" said I. "Why, I got rid of ten pounds which I was quite content to get rid of and never expected to see any more.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- We shall soon be—shall I say, in Mr. Richard's own light-hearted manner, 'going at it'—to our heart's content.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- Not content with these precautions, Mr. Boythorn had himself composed and posted there, on painted boards to which his name was attached in large letters, the following solemn warnings: "Beware of the bull-dog.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- Here am I, content to receive things childishly as they fall out, and I never take trouble!†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- I am content.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2) *
- Quite true that I have exhausted my present resources, and I am quite content to know it.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- Sir Leicester is content enough that the ironmaster should feel that there is no hurry there; there, in that ancient house, rooted in that quiet park, where the ivy and the moss have had time to mature, and the gnarled and warted elms and the umbrageous oaks stand deep in the fern and leaves of a hundred years; and where the sun-dial on the terrace has dumbly recorded for centuries that time which was as much the property of every Dedlock—while he lasted— as the house and lands.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret; I am content.†
Chpt 43-45 (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.