All 24 Uses of
content
in
Anna Karenina
- She was contented and happy in her children; I never interfered with her in anything; I let her manage the children and the house just as she liked.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- He's happy and contented."†
Part 1 (definition 1) *
- Thinking over what he would say, he somewhat regretted that he should have to use his time and mental powers for domestic consumption, with so little to show for it, but, in spite of that, the form and contents of the speech before him shaped itself as clearly and distinctly in his head as a ministerial report.†
Part 2 (definition 1)
- And she was marveling that it had once seemed impossible to her, was explaining to them, laughing, that this was ever so much simpler, and that now both of them were happy and contented.†
Part 2 (definition 1)
- Stremov, carrying with him several members, went over to Alexey Alexandrovitch's side, and not contenting himself with warmly defending the measure proposed by Karenin, proposed other more extreme measures in the same direction.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
- He was not in the least interested in what he said himself, and even less so in what they said; all he wanted was that they and everyone should be happy and contented.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
- Anna Arkadyevna still ill…." said the nurse discontentedly.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
- Anna" Everything in this letter exasperated Countess Lidia Ivanovna: its contents and the allusion to magnanimity, and especially its free and easy—as she considered—tone.†
Part 5 (definition 1)
- "I'm sorry I've broken in on your feminine parliament," he said, looking round on every one discontentedly, and perceiving that they had been talking of something which they would not talk about before him.†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- And that's why he can be calm and contented."†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- A hawk woke up and settled on a haycock, turning its head from side to side and looking discontentedly at the marsh.†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- I am working here, settled in my own place, and I am happy and contented, and we need nothing more to make us happy.†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- Before he read the letter, he knew its contents.†
Part 6 (definition 1)
- He had scarcely read this note, and frowned at its contents, when he heard below the ponderous tramp of the servants, carrying something heavy.†
Part 7 (definition 1)
- Kitty bent down to him, he gave her a beaming smile, propped his little hands on the sponge and chirruped, making such a queer little contented sound with his lips, that Kitty and the nurse were not alone in their admiration.†
Part 8 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- "Yes, he is happy and content!" she thought; "while I….†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- "How is it you have deigned to look me up in this den?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, and not content with shaking hands, he kissed his friend.†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- "I must own I felt so well content yesterday after the Shtcherbatskys' that I didn't care to go anywhere."†
Part 1 (definition 2)
- We are very well content, sir, as it is.†
Part 2 (definition 2)
- "Well, so you're content with your day.†
Part 3 (definition 2) *
- The simplicity, the purity, the sanity of this life he felt clearly, and he was convinced he would find in it the content, the peace, and the dignity, of the lack of which he was so miserably conscious.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- The only change Vronsky detected in him was that subdued, continual radiance of beaming content which settles on the faces of men who are successful and are sure of the recognition of their success by everyone.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- Instead of poverty, general prosperity and content; instead of hostility, harmony and unity of interests.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- For a time after joining his life to hers, and putting on civilian dress, he had felt all the delight of freedom in general of which he had known nothing before, and of freedom in his love,—and he was content, but not for long.†
Part 5 (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.