All 16 Uses of
content
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Taking the mug he drank an inch or more from the depth of its contents, and duly passed it to the next man.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- "What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1) *
- He had not a correspondent on earth, nor was there a possible letter coming to him whose contents the whole parish would not have been welcome to peruse.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- I should be much obliged to you if you would keep the contents of this letter a secret for the present, dear friend.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- Inside the blue door, open half-way down, were to be seen at this time the backs and tails of half-a-dozen warm and contented horses standing in their stalls; and as thus viewed, they presented alternations of roan and bay, in shapes like a Moorish arch, the tail being a streak down the midst of each.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- You were nothing to me once, and I was contented; you are now nothing to me again, and how different the second nothing is from the first!†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- Boldwood had already twitched the handkerchief, and the gun exploded a second time, sending its contents, by a timely blow from Samway, into the beam which crossed the ceiling.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- But I love you—and, as for myself, I am content to be liked.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 2)
- Poor Gabriel's soul was fed with a luxury of content by having her over him, her eyes critically regarding his skilful shears, which apparently were going to gather up a piece of the flesh at every close, and yet never did so.†
Chpt 22-24 (definition 2)
- She can marry him: he is content, and leads a useful life.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- Sometimes I say I should be as glad as a bird to leave the place—for don't suppose I'm content to be a nobody.†
Chpt 28-30 (definition 2)
- There, now that you have wormed it out of me, I hope you are content.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 2)
- Ah! once I felt I could be content with nothing less than the highest homage from the husband I should choose.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 2)
- Now, anything short of cruelty will content me.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 2) *
- Like a homeless wanderer she lingered by the bank, as if lulled and fascinated by the atmosphere of content which seemed to spread from that little dwelling, and was so sadly lacking in her own.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- And sometimes, when I am excessively hopeful and blithe, a trouble is looming in the distance: so that I often get to look upon gloom in me with content, and to fear a happy mood.†
Chpt 52-54 (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.