All 38 Uses of
content
in
Main Street
- They were biology and mystery; their speech was slang phrases and flares of poetry; their silences were contentment, or shaky crises when his arm took her shoulder.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Contentedly Sam Clark drove off, in the heavy traffic of three Fords and the Minniemashie House Free 'Bus.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- She contentedly lugged her pasteboard telescope from the station to her cousin, Tina Malmquist, maid of all work in the residence of Mrs. Luke Dawson.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- With agreeable doubt they ventured through the bamboo shoots into the golden fried noodles of the chow mein; and Dave Dyer did a not very humorous Chinese dance with Nat Hicks; and there was hubbub and contentment.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Is there never any contentment, never any rest?†
Chpt 11 (definition 1) *
- There would be no more trouble or discontent in the world if everybody worked as hard as Pa did when he cleared our first farm.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- I'm trying to develop my own large capacity for dullness and contentment.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1)
- There's the same discontent in women with eight children and one more coming—always one more coming!†
Chpt 16 (definition 1)
- He was completing his protest, "You don't want to be mixed up in all this orgy of meaningless discontent?"†
Chpt 16 (definition 1)
- But it was the contentment of the lost hunter stopping to rest.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- Yet to the casual eye she was not discontented, she was not an abnormal and distressing traitor to the faith of Main Street.†
Chpt 20 (definition 1)
- It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- It is contentment …. the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking.†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- It is contentment …. the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking.†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- Not sure about the rest of it but I guess that's what you and all the other discontented young women really want: some stranger kissing your hand!"†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- She liked the smell of hot earth and clean grease; and the leisurely chug-a-chug, chug-a-chug of the trucks was a song of contentment in the sun.†
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
- She sat up, and took advantage of her victory: "I don't want to rub it in, but you can see for yourself now, this is all a result of your being so discontented and not appreciating the dear good people here.†
Chpt 31 (definition 1)
- If you had five kids and no hired girl, and had to help with the chores and separate the cream, like these farmers' wives, then you wouldn't be so discontented."†
Chpt 36 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- A buzz of content filled the air.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- She listened to the village noises common to all the world, jungle or prairie; sounds simple and charged with magic—dogs barking, chickens making a gurgling sound of content, children at play, a man beating a rug, wind in the cottonwood trees, a locust fiddling, a footstep on the walk, jaunty voices of Bea and a grocer's boy in the kitchen, a clinking anvil, a piano—not too near.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- If she could not, as she desired, do a great thing nobly and with laughter, yet she need not be content with village nothingness.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- His horse bent its neck and plodded, content.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- She was content now.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2) *
- She was convinced that she was gloriously content in her career as doctor's-wife.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- If I stood by and admired him long enough, I would be content.†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- So we shatn't ever be content——"†
Chpt 16 (definition 2)
- She was content.†
Chpt 19 (definition 2)
- With such a small-town life a Kennicott or a Champ Perry is content, but there are also hundreds of thousands, particularly women and young men, who are not at all content.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- With such a small-town life a Kennicott or a Champ Perry is content, but there are also hundreds of thousands, particularly women and young men, who are not at all content.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- I'm not content to leave the sea and the ivory towers to others.†
Chpt 22 (definition 2)
- He was conscious that Carol was near him, that she was important, that he was afraid of her disapproval; but he was content to be alone.†
Chpt 25 (definition 2)
- We have to darn socks, and yet we're not content to think of nothing but socks and darning-cotton.†
Chpt 29 (definition 2)
- He was himself, and in him, in the personality flowing from him, she was unreasoningly content.†
Chpt 30 (definition 2)
- I wouldn't have said this, but when you sneer at Myrtle and the mill——If I'm not to have good sensible things like those, d' you think I'll be content with trying to become a damn dressmaker, after YOU?†
Chpt 30 (definition 2)
- Now I'll be content if I can give….†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- Now I'll be content if I can give....Almost content!†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- SHE tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms.†
Chpt 35 (definition 2)
- I think it's a greatness of life—a refusal to be content with even the healthiest mud."†
Chpt 36 (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.