All 19 Uses of
content
in
The House of Mirth
- She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.†
Chpt 1.1 (definition 1) *
- She had barely enough money to pay her dress-makers' bills and her gambling debts; and none of the desultory interests which she dignified with the name of tastes was pronounced enough to enable her to live contentedly in obscurity.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)
- She might better have contented herself with thinking that he had simply responded to the despairing summons of his hostess, anxious to interpose him between herself and the ill-humour of Mrs. Dorset.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- Meanwhile Mrs. Haffen, prompt to perceive her hesitation, had already opened the packet and ranged its contents on the table.†
Chpt 1.9 (definition 1)
- But what did she intend to do with its contents?†
Chpt 1.9 (definition 1)
- It may be that Selden's nearness had something to do with the quality of his cousin's pleasure; but Miss Farish was so little accustomed to refer her enjoyment of such scenes to her own share in them, that she was merely conscious of a deeper sense of contentment.†
Chpt 1.12 (definition 1)
- Gerty instanced her generous impulses—her restlessness and discontent.†
Chpt 1.14 (definition 1)
- She had been so contented, life had seemed so simple and sufficient—why had he come to trouble her with new hopes?†
Chpt 1.14 (definition 1)
- Mrs. Fisher was not a woman who talked of herself without cause, and the practice of direct speech, far from precluding in her an occasional resort to circuitous methods, served rather, at crucial moments, the purpose of the juggler's chatter while he shifts the contents of his sleeves.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- "I am very much obliged to you," she said, "for taking such an interest in my plans; but I am quite contented where I am, and have no intention of leaving."†
Chpt 2.9 (definition 1)
- Afterward I saw my mistake—I saw I could never be happy with what had contented me before.†
Chpt 2.12 (definition 1)
- For weeks past she had been too listless and indifferent to set her possessions in order, but now she began to examine systematically the contents of her drawers and cupboard.†
Chpt 2.13 (definition 1)
- She raised herself in bed and swallowed the contents of the glass; then she blew out her candle and lay down.†
Chpt 2.13 (definition 1)
- It was true, then, that she had taken money from Trenor; but true also, as the contents of the little desk declared, that the obligation had been intolerable to her, and that at the first opportunity she had freed herself from it, though the act left her face to face with bare unmitigated poverty.†
Chpt 2.14 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- They represented the future she had chosen, and she was content with it, but in no haste to anticipate its joys.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 2)
- If these two factors seem incompatible to the student of feminine psychology, it must be remembered that Gerty had always been a parasite in the moral order, living on the crumbs of other tables, and content to look through the window at the banquet spread for her friends.†
Chpt 1.14 (definition 2)
- And with that she had to content herself, and hasten on to the expectant group on the steps.†
Chpt 2.3 (definition 2) *
- It was before him again in its completeness—the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness of the talk, in the freedom of speech which never arrived at wit and the freedom of act which never made for romance.†
Chpt 2.3 (definition 2)
- "It's a well-earned rest: I'll say that for myself," she continued, sinking down with a sigh of content on the pillowed lounge near the fire.†
Chpt 2.6 (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.