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content as in:  content with how things are

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  • The house will be there, and I promise you can swim to your heart's content.   (source)
    content = satisfaction
  • "Yes'm," I said, not bothering to add that she repeated herself so much that all a body had to do was listen to the first few minutes of her lesson to be free to daydream to her heart's content.   (source)
  • Mae surveyed it all and sighed contentedly.   (source)
    contentedly = in a satisfied manner
  • I wish they were more gray, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have.   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • They were perfectly content with a succession of B's and an occasional A or C.   (source)
  • There was one odd thing, though, that I never understood: in spite of Atticus's shortcomings as a parent, people were content to re-elect him to the state legislature that year, as usual, without opposition.   (source)
  • The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to follow Jack along it.   (source)
  • When a young man came to call what did one talk about? Was it all up to the girl? She had tried her best, but William seemed content just to sit, his back stiffly straight, his large capable hands resting squarely on his sturdy wool-clad knees.   (source)
  • A contented Mr. Gies sits on the divan or leans against the desk with his newspaper, cup and usually the cat at his side.   (source)
  • All involved lived contentedly ever after, except perhaps Mrs. Liddell, who liked Reginald Hargreaves decently enough, but oh, how splendid it would have been if only Alice had married a prince!   (source)
    contentedly = in a satisfied manner
  • But on the way back, as he contentedly ate his prize, I was allowed to do as I wished.   (source)
  • He ate again, sighed with contentment.   (source)
    contentment = satisfaction
  • Miss Brent said: "The abandoned creature, not content with having one sin on her conscience, committed a still graver sin."   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt.   (source)
    contented = satisfied and unworried
  • Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • Thus momentarily we have the two things a soldier needs for contentment: good food and rest.   (source)
    contentment = satisfaction
  • Anne sat long at her window that night companioned by a glad content.   (source)
  • Also, they held it a mercy, since Dave was to die anyway, that he should die in the traces, heart-easy and content.   (source)
    content = satisfied or happy
  • The dawn is close at hand, and we have reason to be content with our first night's work.   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • I was so contented and happy I felt as if I would like to sit right there without moving until I fell asleep.   (source)
  • Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.   (source)
  • I might, for instance, have contented myself with writing out the narratives of a veteran shipmaster, one of the Inspectors, whom I should be most ungrateful not to mention, since scarcely a day passed that he did not stir me to laughter and admiration by his marvelous gifts as a story-teller.   (source)
  • I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness.   (source)
    contentment = satisfaction
  • They did not appear rich, but they were contented and happy; their feelings were serene and peaceful, while mine became every day more tumultuous.   (source)
    contented = satisfied
  • And though Kya was never completely healed from the scorn and suspicion surrounding her, a soft contentment, a near-happiness settled into her.†   (source)
  • Instead he contented himself with scrawling a note to Ron: Let's do it tonight.†   (source)
  • Jonas opened his eyes and lay contentedly on the bed, still luxuriating in the warm and comforting memory.†   (source)
  • I contented myself with books — Perennials for the Rock Garden, Desert Succulents for Northern Climes, and the like.†   (source)
  • Almondine lay with her head on her paws, panting contentedly and watching Edgar with her flecked brown eyes.†   (source)
  • Our golden agouti and spotted paca got along very well, contentedly huddling together and sleeping against each other until the first was stolen.†   (source)
  • But Will had closed his eyes and lay there with a look of such unexpected contentment that I just closed my mouth and nodded.†   (source)
  • A gust of contentment puffed through the room then, and Laila caught a momentary glimpse of the tenderness, the romance, that had once bound her parents back when this house had been crowded and noisy and cheerful.†   (source)
  • A contented silence settled over the table as everyone ate their fill.†   (source)
  • Langdon's body felt warm and deeply contented.†   (source)
  • Jill sits contentedly next to a girl named Aster Cheng.†   (source)
  • Thomas devoured each bite, hunger trumping everything else, the mood of contentment and relief around him palpable.†   (source)
  • Madame Manec takes off her shoes and lights a cigarette and lets out a contented groan.†   (source)
  • The horse, which had been contentedly ripping up and masticating a clump of thick grass, stopped then.†   (source)
  • And many of these patients were well-off, from rich families, so their wealth did not buy them happiness or contentment.†   (source)
  • He circulated among his guests, laughing heartily and displaying an ease and contentedness he had not shown in many years.†   (source)
  • Inside their cedar tree, for nearly four years, he and Hatsue had held one another with the dreamy contentedness of young lovers.†   (source)
  • The Lone Wolf was often an angry wolf, whereas a Misfit was often calm and contented.†   (source)
  • Now, as Francis brushed his teeth, Mae, exhausted and feeling not love but something close to contentment, arranged herself under the thick comforter and faced the wall.†   (source)
  • With a contented sigh, Josie flopped down on her pillow.†   (source)
  • Yet he appeared content to watch Ben-Hur, and Hester throwing up; maybe that's what faith is—exactly that contentment, even facing the future.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the morning they worked quietly and steadily, realizing that their contentment here at Uncle Monty's house did not erase their parents' death, not at all, but at least it made them feel better after feeling so sad, for so long.†   (source)
  • Kate called it his kick of contentment, he was happy with me.†   (source)
  • Looking up at the ceiling, she rotated her raw, burning joints and gave a sigh of contentment.†   (source)
  • He stroked the raven's head with his thumb, and the bird made a contented quorking sound.†   (source)
  • It was called "Perfectly Contented.†   (source)
  • Retraining should also succeed: 'Contentment' messages will (1) counteract a brainswept tendency to question, and (2) lessen the chronic mournfulness effect.†   (source)
  • And I'd rather see a contented hog go to that chair than an aggravated hog.†   (source)
  • People had finished off their breakfasts now and were strolling about, yawning and stretching and groaning contentedly, weighing about ten pounds more apiece.†   (source)
  • She had sources of contentment in her life—the house, the park, above all, the children—and she intended to preserve them by not challenging Jack.†   (source)
  • The families that get the early telegrams have that contented look.†   (source)
  • They lowered their great heads, and the evening air filled with the muffled sounds of smacking lips, tearing grass, and the low snuffling of contented cattle.†   (source)
  • She kept her mind on these and other memories like them in order to maintain a little contented-cat smile throughout the ceremony, until it was kissing time and she had to congratulate her sister.†   (source)
  • I lay contentedly in her arms as the rain washed away my humiliation and shame.†   (source)
  • To Queen Levana's endless dismay, not all Lunars are so easily brainwashed into mindless contentment, and many have risked their lives to escape Luna and relocate here.†   (source)
  • With a flourish, he removed the messily-folded copy of USA Today from the canvas bag on the front seat beside him; and there, settled contentedly in a cardboard box at the bottom of the bag, crunching on some potato chips, was Popper.†   (source)
  • Desire is enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain.†   (source)
  • It was not until later, as he lay back just before full-belly contented sleep, that he remembered having seen some pictures in a magazine of the cave paintings in France.†   (source)
  • It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans.†   (source)
  • Good,she replied in a contented tone.†   (source)
  • She smiled—not the wine smile but her old smile of tenderness and love and contentment.†   (source)
  • They entered with quiet dignity and grace, faces full of contentment and peace, young ones holding the hands of even younger ones.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, she ignored them and spent her time sewing and mumbling to herself, contentedly senile.†   (source)
  • He couldn't go back to "Storm upon the Waters" that they sang under the trees of Sweet Home, so he contented himself with mmmmmmmmm, throwing in a line if one occurred to him, and what occurred over and over was "Bare feet and chamomile sap,/ Took off my shoes; took off my hat."†   (source)
  • Marley stood there panting contentedly, not a trace of concern on his face, and then he lay down and let out a sigh.†   (source)
  • I watched her sleep with the calm contentment of a boy who has no idea of how foolish he is, or what unexpected tragedies the following day will bring.†   (source)
  • Though I must say, I lived in that contented state a long while before I was finally able to look back and admit how desolate my life had once been.†   (source)
  • I settled into outlining a rough draft contentedly, more serene than I'd felt since...well, since Thursday afternoon, if I was being honest.†   (source)
  • And yet, as she wrote in her email, she was moved by how contented I seemed.†   (source)
  • I read Caroline a story and put her to bed feeling blessed for my family's health, and I can't quite tell if this growing sense of contentedness is from exhaustion or the wine.†   (source)
  • He contented himself with looking around, committing everything he saw to his incredible memory.†   (source)
  • The guard dragon Peleus curled contentedly around the pine tree underneath the Golden Fleece and began to snore, blowing steam with every breath.†   (source)
  • Just thinking about the young doctor gave her a feeling of contentment she had not experienced in a long while.†   (source)
  • Father and Betsie and I were seated around the dining room table, Father replacing watches in their pockets and Betsie doing needlework, our big, black, slightly-Persian cat curled contentedly in her lap.†   (source)
  • He sighed contentedly.†   (source)
  • A cat could probably be either contented or unhappy, but did it ever ask itself if there was a God or whether it had an immortal soul?†   (source)
  • No, he contented himself with being near her—assuming, perhaps, that over time her feelings might change.†   (source)
  • Or maybe, if I'd done all that, I'd have ended up exactly where I am and I would be perfectly contented.†   (source)
  • He scratched their bristly chins, and the pigs grunted and munched contentedly.†   (source)
  • Clara closed her eyes, breathed a contented sigh, and left for the other world without looking back.†   (source)
  • He would contentedly kick a ball around for hours in the backyard in Austria, by himself, and developed his soccer skills along with self-confidence.†   (source)
  • While I still missed Dad for a long time, I felt a sense of contentment being with just my mother and my brother because we really did have a happy family.†   (source)
  • Old, fat, and contented, she had arrived in the company of her oldest son who, like his father, had been a colonel in the army but had been repudiated by him because of his contemptible behavior during the massacre of the banana workers in San Juan de la Cienaga.†   (source)
  • "You might become one of us," he smiled his wise, contented smile.†   (source)
  • Godliness actually is a means of great gain when accompanied by contentment.— I TIMOTHY 6:6†   (source)
  • Mr. Dubonnet and his union leaders stood nearby, their arms crossed, contented smiles on their faces.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, at night, she closed her eyes and lay awake, listening to his steady breathing, filled with a deep sense of contentment.†   (source)
  • Miss Kenton seemed to ponder this for a moment, then said: "It occurs to me you must be a well-contented man, Mr Stevens.†   (source)
  • He drew contentedly on his pipe, making hollow sounds.†   (source)
  • In mid-roar, at last, all faded to honest laughter, pleasant chuckling, faint giggling, then softly and with great contentment receiving and giving, breath, shaking his happy-weary head, the good ache of action in his throat and ribs, gone from his crumpled hand.†   (source)
  • Looking at her parents, united side by side before her, Grace felt true contentment.†   (source)
  • Contentment thrived in repetition, routine, familiarity.†   (source)
  • "Nomura-obasan sighs contentedly and listens to the nasal-voiced man on the record singing "Darling, I am growing old, silver threads among the gold.†   (source)
  • It was a balmy, starlit night, and as he reflected on the beauty of his surroundings, Steve felt a sudden rush of contentment.†   (source)
  • My mind flailed around and landed on one thing—one little island of contentment in a world that had turned into stress and confusion and madness.†   (source)
  • I contented myself instead with an ice-cream cone, which I enjoyed while sitting by the reflecting pool.†   (source)
  • After a cold, wet night in the temple maze, the sun was contentment itself, and I didn't wake until it was setting.†   (source)
  • I lean back, full of contentment, and am idly looking around the studio when an oddly familiar figure catches my eye.†   (source)
  • She was sitting, contentedly engaged in this particular activity, when a slow dark movement along the baseboard caught her eye.†   (source)
  • Such accessories, and the dust and the winds and the ever calling train whistles, add up to a "home town" that is probably remembered with nostalgia by those who have left it, and that for those who have remained, provides a sense of roots and contentment.†   (source)
  • So I came home on an earlier flight, hoping to share this new feeling of contentment with Don, but-he's not here.†   (source)
  • The count was munching contentedly on "IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS" and the king was busy slicing one that stated "NIGHT AIR IS BAD AIR."†   (source)
  • You can't know squirrels lead 'charming, contented lives.'†   (source)
  • Pea Eye was clearly the senior man, but Pea Eye had contentedly taken orders for thirty years; to expect him to suddenly start giving them was to expect the impossible.†   (source)
  • For example, here you are, one of the richest young fellows of my acquaintance, living along very contentedly where every tenet you profess to hold is daily outraged.†   (source)
  • A little while later they came out smoking cigars, talking contentedly in the mellow lower register of the German language.†   (source)
  • All this while Jill went to and fro, sometimes stirring the pot and sometimes looking out enviously at the Donkey and the Unicorn who were contentedly grazing.†   (source)
  • They showed me a contentment based on the belief that nothing more was coming to them, although a great deal more was due.†   (source)
  • 'Why not?' answered Chief White Halfoat, and lay back in the mud contentedly with the bottle of rye cuddled in his arms.†   (source)
  • Lost in the stories, in the telling, I find my satisfaction, contentment, peace, even in the most tragic ones.†   (source)
  • And I have been so contented, nurtured, loved, babied, spoiled and all the other good and belonging and happy words there are that ...well, I promise I'll be better about writing in the future, okay?†   (source)
  • I've seen Communist pictures showing a contented woman sitting on her bunk sewing.†   (source)
  • At his desk, with Lump contentedly sprawled on his back in the doorway, feet in the air, Cal put his mind into work.†   (source)
  • —Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman Iwake up with a feeling of deep and utter contentment, even though I'm sleeping alone, Andrew having stumbled to his own bed after an attempt at sleeping together in the narrow MDF bed failed miserably, thanks to his long legs and my tendency to sleep with my knees curled up to my chest.†   (source)
  • Mum began petting Max's hand and humming contentedly, but her crocodile eye remained fixed on Scott McDaniels.†   (source)
  • Mosehn's mother exhilarated in the breakneck speed of our journey down the mountain, puffing away contentedly on acrid Turkish cigarettes.†   (source)
  • That's what I tell myself when I wake up, gasping, in my own bed in my own room with Ann snoring contentedly a few feet away.†   (source)
  • There are more ways than one of being happy, better perhaps to be peaceful and contented and protected, as I feel now, peaceful for years and long years, and afterwards I may be saved whatever Myra says.†   (source)
  • Eriksson smiled contentedly.†   (source)
  • In other matters they were, as a rule, generous and not greedy, but contented and moderate, so that estates, farms, workshops, and small trades tended to remain unchanged for generations.†   (source)
  • Without another word Bug took off down the path at a full run, and an odd expression of contentment came over the knight's face.†   (source)
  • I decided to leave the remaining chores for the afternoon and returned upstairs to set Tom to my breast so that Jane Martin would find him with full belly when she arrived shortly to watch over him....As I hoped, he barely stirred as I lifted him, greeting me only with a single long stare before closing his eyes and commencing his contented suckling.†   (source)
  • Dressing quickly, he found his way down the stairs and past Amenti, who was curled up asleep on the corner of the couch, nestled in Nelly's favorite sweater, shedding all over it in blissful kitty contentment.†   (source)
  • Happiness and contentment were going to be a little harder for her than for me.†   (source)
  • There was the tinkle of running water and the lazy drone of contented bees.†   (source)
  • On the branches of a Christmas tree, hung like ornaments, were photos of an indisputably contented family.†   (source)
  • Part of my deep contentment was due, I'm sure, to being with my father, but part, too, was that I was no longer fighting.†   (source)
  • Her heart was not beating as strongly as usual and she felt weary and old, but she was sure at last that she had saved Wilbur's life, and she felt peaceful and contented.†   (source)
  • Encircling the property, contentedly grazing on the rich land, was a herd of at least fifty cattle and perhaps five hundred sheep.†   (source)
  • The thought brought a flutter of contentment to his belly.†   (source)
  • Ernesto's pallid skin mottled with excitement, his tentative hands that quickly became assured under her encouragement, the way he laid his — downy head between her breasts and slept contentedly, like a well-fed baby.†   (source)
  • He stood puffing contentedly, and inquired of the officers, who now were crouched invisibly under an orange bough, "What for?"†   (source)
  • I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory-don't you think so, Miss Taggart?†   (source)
  • All of this is true, and yet these days my contentment comes from knowing that Snow Flower's and my blood will soon rule the house of Lu.†   (source)
  • After a silent and contented interval, Tamar lifted the Christmas pudding from the pan.†   (source)
  • Coon Jack set down, total mollified and contented, as was everybody else.†   (source)
  • One moment I was contentedly, unhurriedly binding and propping up sheaves; the next, it was as if something had hit me physically, inside my head.†   (source)
  • A contented smile widened across the dwarf's face, and Drizzt was happy that he had been able to comfort his dying friend.†   (source)
  • They're thick to keep the spirit warm and contented.†   (source)
  • Years earlier, Archer and Doreen Jayawardene had mentioned to him that Rock Hill was a "see devi" place, meaning a home of contentment and peace.†   (source)
  • At day's end the children had collapsed on their parents, and they all had napped right there, a huge ballof wild-angled limbs, deep breathing, and the contented sighs of tired, happy people at rest.†   (source)
  • He did not want to think of it now, in his contentment; but sometimes he looked at her, and it seemed that his Helen, the real Helen, had moved away.†   (source)
  • Rayl asked in a contented tone.†   (source)
  • So I had to be content without him; but contentment cannot be forced, and Nathan noticed my preoccupation.†   (source)
  • And watching over it all, smiling contentedly as though the entire production had been arranged for his private amusement, was Shamron.†   (source)
  • I lay there, as contented as a Holstein, until my peace was interrupted by a pickup that slurped its way through the muddy field, right toward me and my tent.†   (source)
  • It's going to be beautiful," she said contentedly.†   (source)
  • He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else—one of the very few contented people I met in my whole journey.†   (source)
  • At half-past twelve she brought his lunch, and, to his pleasure, some English newspapers which he read contentedly until three o'clock.†   (source)
  • They would graze contentedly where they were for another hour.†   (source)
  • Hence, on my first expedition afield I contented myself with making a circular tour on a radius of about three hundred yards from the cabin.†   (source)
  • But the intimate contentment would not come.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, like a floral extension of the pink room I inhabited, a ripe peony sending forth its petals, I blossomed in creative contentment.†   (source)
  • KELLER [NO BREAK]: —things to do, to behave like—even look like—a human child, so manageable, contented, cleaner, more—†   (source)
  • He can keep you just well enough fed that you rest contented in your shanty.†   (source)
  • My temper rose as I heard that contented, rippling, high-pitched sound.†   (source)
  • The simple ritual gave him much contentment, and he would continue it as long as he had the strength.†   (source)
  • She hummed contentedly as she collected the quondong, storing them first in Peter's handkerchief then in the folds of her dress.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she contented herself with seeing him from afar, when the engine was being refuelled with the help of all the passengers.†   (source)
  • He lights his cigar and sits down in the rocker at right of table, which is his chair, and puffs contentedly.†   (source)
  • In the silence, the kittens squeaked and Brother murmured in contentment, patting Claudie's face.†   (source)
  • Yet the mouth carried no suggestion either of smiling or of gravity; only strength, silence, manhood, and indifferent contentment.†   (source)
  • [As he mentions the various items of clothing he points self-contentedly to his own hat, tie and shoes.†   (source)
  • It was only that he had relished his contentment.†   (source)
  • She would be going to bed, for instance, contentedly, after the pictures, when the thought would strike her, "Another day gone!"†   (source)
  • That evening's work made us more or less content to leave next morning.   (source)
  • We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission.   (source)
  • But the land was green and there was much grass through which the hobbit strolled along contentedly.   (source)
    contentedly = in a satisfied manner
  • Kropp is contented now and more accommodating: "How many of us were there in the class exactly?"   (source)
    contented = satisfied
  • Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.   (source)
    contentedly = in a satisfied manner
  • He was quite content; and the sound of the kettle on his hearth was ever after more musical than it had been even in the quiet days before the Unexpected Party.   (source)
    content = satisfied or happy
  • For of course, they didn't content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that.   (source)
    content = satisfy
  • 'None of you has ever seen a dead donkey,' and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • These were inspired largely by the Master and they did not particularly please the dwarves, but in the meantime they were well contented and they quickly grew fat and strong again.   (source)
  • There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment.   (source)
    contentment = satisfaction
  • On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D. Finally he decided to be content with the first four letters, and used to write them out once or twice every day to refresh his memory.   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content, if the June evening had been endless and the supply of clothes inexhaustible, to remain there for a thousand years, pegging out diapers and singing rubbish.   (source)
  • …–would wake to these things, or rather to a dream of which these things, transformed and embellished by the soma in her blood, were the marvellous constituents, and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile of infantile contentment.   (source)
    contentment = satisfaction
  • The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking.   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • Soon Bilbo's stomach was feeling full and comfortable again, and he felt he could sleep contentedly, though really he would have liked a loaf and butter better than bits of meat toasted on sticks.   (source)
    contentedly = in a satisfied manner
  • He had earned it, and he would not be content with less.   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • They were out in the open at last and Gatsby was content.   (source)
  • ...in two hours he was lying very contentedly in Petersen Sahib's hammock...   (source)
    contentedly = in a satisfied manner
  • But I'm content, for it's comin' to me, my deary, and comin' quick.   (source)
    content = satisfied
  • I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads.   (source)
    content = satisfied or happy
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  • Its contents would be verified and delivery confirmation would he sent.   (source)
    contents = contained items
  • Stone spread a surgical drape on the table and shook out the contents of the bag.   (source)
    contents = things within
  • He spent the rest of the night out in the cold, violently discharging the contents of his gastrointestinal tract.   (source)
    contents = things inside
  • " 'Answers to the name of Buck,' " the man soliloquized, quoting from the saloon-keeper's letter which had announced the consignment of the crate and contents.   (source)
    contents = contained items
  • Why my hand shook, and why I involuntarily spilt half the contents of my cup into my saucer, I did not choose to consider.   (source)
    contents = liquid held
  • But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.   (source)
    contents = what was inside it
  • He made no distinction between grammar and content, between form and substance.†   (source)
  • Occasionally he brought the copy of Mein Kampf and read it next to the flames, seething at the content.†   (source)
  • You'll each have four hours with Effie for presentation and four with me for content," says Haymitch.†   (source)
  • The competition was always between me and my best friend Moniba, who had beautiful writing and presentation, which the examiners liked, but I knew I could beat her on content.†   (source)
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  • It is a testament to the content of Louie's childhood that his stories about it usually ended with "....and then I ran like mad.†   (source)
  • They were content with just food and water, and, in exchange, they generously gave of their wool, their company, and—once in a while—their meat.†   (source)
  • For the time being, he was perfectly content to watch a soccer match being played in Quito, Ecuador—wherever that was.†   (source)
  • I could see now that she was for the most part not liked, but merely tolerated, because of her money, and her boundless energy: most of the women in those circles were content to let Winifred do the lion's share of whatever work might be involved.†   (source)
  • THEY CAME UP ALONG THE SOUTH FENCE AND CROSSED THE shallow swells of the field, with Essay, for once, content to stay near his side.†   (source)
  • The old man was a famous scholar who had made his name by imbuing Eastern philosophy with the content of modern science.†   (source)
  • Because it was not a discrete event; it was the form of an Not content with the toll exacted by means of incarceration and forced labor in inhospitable climes, the supreme authorities sought to efface the Enemies of the People.†   (source)
  • Thanks to my prior exploits, I was largely immune to bullying, and, like most kids, was usually content to avoid the bully's attention.†   (source)
  • To many people, the content of Mona and Cassie's letters might seem like typical teen gossip, and in a certain way it is.†   (source)
  • Grover was eating potato chips to his heart's content, while Annabeth cranked up the National Geographic Channel.†   (source)
  • He had to be content with that.†   (source)
  • If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.†   (source)
  • Under such conditions of diplomatic peace, all animals are content and we can relax and have a look at each other.†   (source)
  • Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities.†   (source)
  • Will, watching the film, seemed relaxed and almost content.†   (source)
  • She wasn't over losing her mother; that would take a long time, but she seemed content enough to be with me.†   (source)
  • Where most banks were content with the usual polished marble and granite, this one had opted for wall-to-wall metal and rivets.†   (source)
  • Thomas could almost convince himself he'd be completely content, happy and excited to learn his new life, aim for his goal of being a Runner.†   (source)
  • Werner walks behind, content to be in his shadow.†   (source)
  • And you are content to be ignorant, which is worse.†   (source)
  • There are four different safety interlocks that prevent the regulator from letting the Hab's oxygen content get too low.†   (source)
  • Luther was content to look after his goldfish and become quietly drunk.†   (source)
  • He felt content.†   (source)
  • I see you smiling when you talk to some of the other girls, and you seem very content at meals, I'll give you that.†   (source)
  • Sirius was a brave, clever and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.†   (source)
  • Your husband indicated an unwillingness to talk about the content of his conversation with the defendant?†   (source)
  • Hemoglobin is iron-containing protein that makes up 97 percent of every red blood cell's content, when dry.†   (source)
  • "So we have to content ourselves with the people we do know and can know," Bailey said, sighing loudly again.†   (source)
  • Ty had been content enough with his patched-together hog operation, Pete had accepted the bargain of his life—routine frustration, occasional blowups, but at least some larger purpose to participate in.†   (source)
  • To be content with herself and her life and to not be an emotional yo-yo.†   (source)
  • But he was not content to spend his time in the dreaded city in the manner that most Gravesend seniors spent their time.†   (source)
  • We were content.†   (source)
  • Tired and content and...frustrated.†   (source)
  • He was quite content to let Amanda do the talking, for he knew that behind her grumbling was all that he had ever wanted.†   (source)
  • Be content with an occasional grimace.†   (source)
  • She looks so content and full of life in every single picture, it's hard to imagine what was really going on inside her head.†   (source)
  • He would bide his time, make them think he was content to remain here ...and then, when they had grown lax, he would be off again.†   (source)
  • It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content.†   (source)
  • Instead, he stands quietly, content to watch.†   (source)
  • A tiger can make a soft prrrn-prrn noise deep within its chest and make even rabbits feel safe and content.†   (source)
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