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Sentences ending with content

I can give you enough for any woman's needs--the world may be yours to see and use to your heart's content. [11]
Her nature was warm, and she had the animal-like fondness for physical ease and content. [11]
Those who seek vain pleasure in England take more pains to enjoy it than they would spend in New England to gain wealth, and yet have not half such sweet content. [4]
If in the vague dusk of her brain the thought glimmered that she was ballast for Jean on sea and anchor on land, she still was content. [11]
Zoe's trilling was torture to him, though he had never forbidden her to sing, and she had sung on to her heart's content. [11]
We were well-disposed to do his will, and the Pernharts no less; on a certain Wednesday the pictures were carried to his house, and on the morrow, being Thursday, I would go and know whether he were content. [10]
He must learn to be content! [10]
There had been times when she seemed of it, part of it, absorbed by it, till it flowed over her soul and wrapped her in a deep content. [11]
We know what their tone is to the people of the North; if we do not, De Bow and Governor Hammond are schoolmasters who will teach us to our heart's content. [6]
And she thinks the world is a magnificent place, and she loves it, and wallows--fairly wallows--in content. [11]

Short sentences using content

Jethro was content to wait. [9]
Well, I am content. [5]
We shall be content tomorrow. [11]
But thee must be content. [11]
I am content. [9]
To content him. [5]
Was she content? [4]
Was Margaret content? [4]
She was content. [11]

Sentences containing content two or more times

When you came to this parish you seemed to have a sensible, a proportional view of things; you were content to confine your activities to your own sphere, content not to meddle with politics and business, which you could, at first hand, know nothing about. [9]
It was good seein' all my old friends again; but I kem back content, I kem back full of home-feelin's and content. [11]

More example sentences with the word content in them

If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
Does that content you, impulsive little soldier? [5]
By ingenious fetters you force the mighty winged intellect to content itself within the narrow world of reality. [10]
Mere lukewarm satisfaction would not content her in the case of the Emperor Charles; she wished to arouse his enthusiasm, his rapture. [10]
The imperial crown would lapse to his brother; Ferdinand's son, Maximilian, now Charles's son-in-law, was destined to succeed his father, while the Infant Philip must in future be content with the sovereignty of Spain, the Netherlands, Charles's Italian possessions, and the New World. [10]
We gave the world tobacco and the potato, perhaps the most important contributions to the content and the fatness of the world made by any new country, and it was a noble ambition to give it new styles of art and literature also. [4]
She called no witnesses, saying she would content herself with examining the witnesses for the prosecution. [5]
Are you content with yourself and with your life? [2]
Mrs. Benson beamed with motherly content, and was quite as tearful as ungrammatical, but her mind was practical and forecasting. [4]
Are you content with me, Nitetis? [10]
He was content with his work. [5]
She was content with her lot; and if any change for the worse were in prospect she would rather not be tormented beforehand by a wise prophet; nor was it better to be deluded by a foolish one. [10]
And yet--believe me--I wish him no ill, and I will be quite content, if only I need never go back to him. [10]
Believe me, you will soon learn to couple content and longing. [10]
It was the will of Heaven that he should give up his enterprise and be content to make due preparations for a noble work which could be carried through without him, in order to accomplish another, out of friendship, which urgently needed his help. [10]
My memoirs--these only will content you? [11]
Then perchance you will call me to your side, and your kiss will say, 'I am content with my Sappho, I love her still. [10]
He wanted his wife to abandon his wretched carcass long ago, as she herself was sound and well, but Luka said that she was content to remain and wait on the man she loved till the spirit should be freed from its burden. [5]
He asked himself why Byng had not been content to buy one of the great mansions which could always be had in London for a price, where time had softened all the outlines, had given that subdued harmony in architecture which only belongs to age. [11]
There are some who say that those are happiest who keep at home and content themselves with reading about the lands of the imagination. [4]
In this atmosphere, which seemed to flow over all these Atlantic isles at this season, one endures a great deal of exertion with little fatigue; or he is content to sit still, and has no feeling of sluggishness. [4]
The furtive smile which had betrayed his content at pocketing the six thousand dollars still lingered at the corners of his mouth. [11]
And the rascals were well content to sleep. [9]
For Maryland was well content with the government she had enjoyed, and her best patriots long after shunned the length of secession. [9]
And I was well content to be rid of Philip's company. [9]
In those days we were not content to embalm the thing and bury it decently, we wanted to build a monument over it. [5]
On that point we therefore content ourselves with giving the following extracts from the writings of Mr. Jefferson, General Jackson, and the speech of Mr. Calhoun: "To be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves. [7]
Indeed, why should we be content with less than a royal duke? [11]
No fight ever was won by man or nation content with half a victory. [9]
Our Magister, who was well-skilled in it, taught him therein, and was, as heretofore, well content to be with us. [10]
Cousin Maud, meseemed, was the most content of all. [10]
And yet he was so informed with the modern spirit that he was not content, as a zealot formerly might have been, to snatch souls out of the evil that is in the world, but he strove to lessen the evil. [4]
Howbeit, Ursula Tetzel was not content with that, but went up to her and with a sneer enquired whether Junker Schopper at Paris were well. [10]
But Clement Lindsay was gone, and she must content herself with such worshippers as the village afforded. [6]
Her own home was far more richly and prettily furnished than her old one in Red Cock Street, but it did not yet satisfy her desires, and she did not feel content in it. [10]
But Miss Lucretia was content to wait, and guessed at many things which Cynthia did not tell her, and made some personal effort, unknown to Cynthia, to find out other things. [9]
Just now he was content and kind, for although he had done all that lay in his power, the entertainment had not lasted long enough, for him to arrive at a state of intoxication which could make him surly, or to overload his digestion. [10]
The young beauty was by no means content with a brief greeting; but drew Helena entirely away from him. [10]
But our hero was a born explorer, and could not be content with not examining the strange coast upon which he found himself. [4]
If we have war, Richard, you will not be content to remain at home, nor would I wish it. [9]
Take example by us; we are content with our own faith and leave others to enjoy theirs in peace. [10]
Peter's representations were unheeded; he now frankly told Henrica what a conflict he had had, and entreated her to have patience and be content to remain in his house as a welcome guest. [10]
I know your uncle--I know that he will make his borrowed throne as wide as he possibly can; but when we return home he will be quite content to sit on a narrow seat again. [10]
Do not laugh, Ulrich; I well know that youth lies behind me, that I am old, yet Pasquale loves me; since I have had him, I have been more content and, Holy Virgin! [10]
He thought that too much, for he must live; so the god must be content with a tithe, for the taxes to the State on his earnings were hardly more. [10]
But no one told Soada this, and she did not think; she was content to rest in the fleeting dream. [11]
When I came to your father I was content to be overseer in Talbot, and thankful for his bounty. [9]
I wasn't content to wait to deny myself for the ideal. [9]
She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. [5]
He was content to satisfy himself with the suggestion that he looked upon himself as degraded by the public spectacle which he had made of himself, fighting on a tin roof, for the delectation of everybody a block or two around. [5]
She, too, went to rest in a joyous, happy mood, and, as she lay in her narrow bed, asked herself whether she could not renounce her ardent longing for wealth and splendour and be content with a modest life at Wolf's side. [10]
People were content to relax their exertions to satisfy their curiosity, and simply to sit down and greatly admire. [14]
They were content to reach ground again without broken necks, and take the townward track over the hill. [5]
Howbeit I had to put on a guise of content, nay of gladness, for the Royal pair had bidden me to their side and it was my task to explain all they desired to learn. [10]
I am content to prove myself. [9]
We have got to move or be content to see our effects wasted away and utterly destroyed. [5]
He was glad to find her in the possession of such treasures, but his time was limited, and he must, unfortunately, content himself with this last brief meeting. [10]
All Perry has to do is to sit back and take in receipts from the Boyne Street car line, and Tom is content if he gets a few commissions every week. [9]
Barbara was obliged to content herself with the others, yet her heart ached secretly that he gave her no word of welcome. [10]
Jake was content to borrow a cut of tobacco from the superintendent and wonder aimlessly around the farm until Mr. Sutton's family prayers and breakfast were accomplished. [9]
Is she content to be the woman that some of the novelists, and some of the painters also, say she is, or would she prefer to approach that ideal which all the world loves? [4]
He besought Nemesis to be content, and not add to blindness new tortures to augment the terrible ones which rent his soul, and he did so with all the ardour of his passionate nature. [10]
She begged me to be content with the 'no;' then I pressed her harder, till she interrupted me, and owned with proud decision that she preferred some one else. [10]
And she had to be content with so much of the gentleman's biography, for her husband relapsed into somnolence again. [9]
However, we had to be content with it and make the best of it; for, all we could do we could not coax our landscape down out of the clouds. [5]
They bring peace to a house, they diffuse serene content in a room full of mixed company, though they may say very little, and are apparently, unconscious of their own power. [5]
On the way thither, Hadrian asked: "Is the steward so miserably paid that he is forced to content himself with such meagre fare? [10]
Not content with this, he strewed gold-dust in his hair and beard and filled his mouth to that extent that he appeared in the act of choking. [10]
She would tell this to Master Peter with all honesty, and she was sure that he would be content with her friendship and warm goodwill. [10]
He would do this always exactly in this way; he never was content to stay in the chamber if we compelled him to go upstairs and through the door. [4]
He did not think that Cynthia loved him--yet, but he had the effrontery to believe that she might, some day; and he was content to wait. [9]
What power was there in desert life that could make this poor camel-driver, at the end of a long day of weariness and toil and little food and drink, sing a song of content and cheerfulness? [11]
You land in the saddle comfortably, next time, and stay there--that is, if you can be content to let your legs dangle, and leave the pedals alone a while; but if you grab at once for the pedals, you are gone again. [5]
Above and beyond the sacrifice of a woman's life, the joy of possessing her soul and affection, is something more desirable still--fame and glory--personal fame and glory, The woman may share them, of course, and be content with the radiance. [9]
And you had the right, as I have already said and I am content--perfectly content. [5]
Not content with the old European trade, they have sought out the East and West Indies, and likewise Cathay and Tartary, whence they pretend, from their now and then suspicious voyages, they bring home great commodities. [4]
She took in the night-air with deep-drawn breaths, and looked up contentedly at the moon, for she was well content with herself. [10]
Behind him, in the Manor Cartier, the man who had had no luck and much philosophy, snored on till morning in unconscious content. [11]
When Eva assented, the lady remarked that members of this brotherhood had rarely come to her castle; but Biberli said that they were quiet, devout men who, content with the alms they begged, preached, and performed other religious duties. [10]
The result of the first throw matters little, only he who wins the last goes home content. [10]
As it was, the Devil of Estrangement might well be content with his night's work. [11]
The more subtle, the deeper part of her, the searching soul never to be content with superficial reasons and the obvious cause, these he did not know--was he ever to know? [11]
Let them cut the crops and burn wood to their hearts' content. [2]
When you add the constant presence of charming scenery and the nearly constant absence of dust--well, if one is not content then, he ought to get out and walk. [5]
The senate of the city had found the expense of this huge building too heavy, and had been well content to let the lower rooms to Philippus and his Egyptian friend, Horapollo. [10]
Then I recognized the charity and the friendliness in the faces before me, and little by little my fright melted away, and I began to talk Within three or four minutes I was comfortable, and even content. [5]
Be content with that; I am more than satisfied. [10]
Was it possible that this man, who had gone alone to the bridge in the night, had once been happy, content with life, grateful for it, possessed of a simple trust in his fellow-men--in Eldon Parr? [9]
It must be that they are much more content with the climate and country upon which they happen, by the accident of their birth, than they pretend to be. [4]
How is it that spirits that are content to spend an eternity in frivolous employments, and accept it as happiness, are so fastidious about frivolous questions upon the subject? [5]
At the time that she was charging the primary student three hundred dollars for twelve lessons she was not content with this tidy assessment, but had other ways of plundering him. [5]
I sometimes wish that it was a little higher, but we ought to be content with such blessings as we have, and not pine after those that are out of our reach. [14]
I am content that it stand to the end of the world if it please men and please Heaven, and I shall rejoice in all the good it produces. [6]
He was grateful that he had been clean-shaved that morning, and he was content to catch the citrine odour of the bergamot upon his hair. [11]
It is more than human to be so placidly certain about things, and so finely superior, and so airily content with one's performance. [5]
Manners seemed more than content that she should play the hostess, which she did to perfection. [9]
You want more than competence, and I--the saints know-would be perfectly content with 'good. [10]
One hour and ten minutes before Mrs. Clemens died I was saying to her "To-day, after five months search, I've found the villa that will content you: to-morrow you will examine the plans and give it your consent and I will buy it. [5]
He had had temptation to announce to those who heard him the night before the poll what Luzanne had told; but better wisdom guided him, to his subsequent content. [11]
This is Mr Swiveller, my intimate friend--a gentleman of good family and great expectations, but who, having rather involved himself by youthful indiscretion, is content for a time to fill the humble station of a clerk--humble, but here most enviable. [12]

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