All 5 Uses of
content
in
The Time Machine
- Filby contented himself with laughter.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *
- Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- But they must have been air-tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- As for the rest of the contents of that gallery, though on the whole they were the best preserved of all I saw, I had little interest.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.†
Chpt 7 (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.