Use contented in a sentence
Sentences ending with contented
- Rested and refreshed, we took the rail happy and contented. [5]
- Then, and only then, did he seem contented. [9]
- He continued to store up his treasures at home until his occupation lost the charm of novelty and became monotonous; then he ceased from it, contented. [5]
- When Rockwell came, soon after Jim and the nurse left him, he simulated sleep, for he had no mind to talk; and the doctor, deceived by his even breathing, had left, contented. [11]
- We were once so happy and he so cheerful and contented! [12]
- The town was sleepy and comfortable and contented. [5]
- Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented. [4]
- When she had not always been dimly conscious of a desire to please him, of a struggle to keep him interested and contented? [9]
- And after all I've done for my workmen, --building them a club house with a piano in it, and a library and a billiard table, trying to do my best to make them comfortable and contented. [9]
- Besides, the planter insisted that Roxy wouldn't know where she was, at first, and that by the time she found out she would already have been contented. [5]
Short sentences using contented
- He is quite contented. [11]
- They were healthy and contented. [10]
- Were they contented? [9]
- Also contented. [5]
More example sentences with the word contented in them
- These will make you really contented and happy. [5]
- With a glass you can see the cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nimbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow. [5]
- I wonder that you can make yourself contented here with nothing to do. [11]
- And everywhere were workshops, factories, and all manner of industries; and intent faces and busy hands were to be seen wherever one looked; and in one's ears was the ceaseless clink of hammers, the buzz of trade and the contented hum of drums and fly-wheels. [5]
- In her satisfaction with this, and from her good nature, she was contented to be served with her refreshments after the concert by Mr. March, and to remain joking with him. [8]
- Myrtle was contented with this statement, and asked no questions, and it was a perfectly understood thing that nobody alluded to the subject in her presence. [6]
- He contented himself with the belief that the most vigorous natures are the most difficult to rouse. [11]
- He contented himself with sneering at the thought that it was possible for the Supreme Court ever to make such a decision. [7]
- He contented himself with admonishing her to keep in mind her wickednesses, and repent of them, and think of her salvation. [5]
- He contented himself with a brief statement of the case. [5]
- Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
- Meantime a stranger, who looked like an amateur detective gotten up as an impossible English earl, had been watching the evening's proceedings with manifest interest, and with a contented expression in his face; and he had been privately commenting to himself. [5]
- The capital needed, when peace comes, to ensure a happy and contented democracy must be procured without encroaching on the minimum standard of life, and without hampering production. [9]
- Her white caps were now plaited with almost coquettish skill and care, and the firm, contented manner in which she ruled Trautchen and the two under maid-servants showed that everything was going on well in Peter's house and business. [10]
- Oh, if we were face to face in this room again, my white-livered man of law, how well contented one of us would be! [12]
- The city of Victoria was twinkling dim in the deep heart of her smoke-cloud, and getting ready to vanish and now we closed the field-glasses and sat down on our steamer chairs contented and at peace. [5]
- The light, warm touch soothed the fettered prince of the desert, and, rubbing his brow against Melissa's round arm, he muttered a low, contented growl. [10]
- It once seemed to us that, if we ever reached it, we should be contented to abide there, in a place so remote, in a port so picturesque and foreign. [4]
- The mahout talks to the elephant in a low voice all the time, and the elephant seems to understand it all and to be pleased with it; and he obeys every order in the most contented and docile way. [5]
- It is better to take them by themselves; and, if my reader finds anything to please or profit from, I shall be contented, and he, I feel sure, will not be ungrateful. [6]
- Did it occur to Mr. Froude to ask the man whether he would be contented with a good trade and the Ten Commandments? [4]
- The traveler forgot to bring with him the contented mind of the Italian. [4]
- You have learned to be contented here? [10]
- There's Lise, married to Andrew--a better husband one would think could hardly be found nowadays--but is she contented with her lot? [2]
- Why, by this time, nothing that Shelley's wife could do would have been satisfactory to him, for he was in love with another woman, and was never going to be contented again until he got back to her. [5]
- When it was time to go, we bade our distinguished hosts good-bye, and they retired happy and contented to their apartments to count their spoons. [5]
- Think what beautiful things we have seen, and how contented we have felt. [12]
- They know whether they are restless or contented, and what examples they set to the peoples who get their ideas of republican simplicity and virtue from the Americans who sojourn among them. [4]
- The British contented themselves with holding their position till Walley returned bearing the admiral's orders to embark again for the fleet. [11]
- The Four betook themselves to the cabin, which was fortunately large, and made life bearable with a game of cards; while Mrs. Cooke, whose adaptability and sense I had come greatly to, admire, contented herself with a corner and a book. [9]
- Wolf thought of the loud voice which had reached him a short time before from the midst of the Ratisbon party, but he said nothing, and the baron henceforward contented himself with occasionally uttering a few words. [10]
- The Emperor received the honors due to Zeus and his fiat had ruined the happiness of a contented home as completely as the thunderbolt wielded by the Father of the gods could have done. [10]
- We were in the heart and home of priest craft--of a happy, cheerful, contented ignorance, superstition, degradation, poverty, indolence, and everlasting unaspiring worthlessness. [5]
- As Cambyses entered the hall, nearly every one present prostrated themselves before him; his relations alone, distinguished by the blue and white fillet on the tiara, contented themselves with a deferential obeisance. [10]
- He even admired the Duke for his vexing idiosyncrasies, for they came of a strong individuality which, in happier case, should have made him a contented and beloved monarch. [11]
- This supply contented the company, who feared nothing so much as starving, and yet, says Smith, so envied him that they would rather hazard starving than have him get reputation by his vigorous conduct. [4]
- In front of the cave where she had hoped to meet with Paulus she found Sirona; she did not stop with her, but contented herself with laughing wildly and calling out words of abuse. [10]
- Napoleon was in that well-known after-dinner mood which, more than any reasoned cause, makes a man contented with himself and disposed to consider everyone his friend. [2]
- Then one remembers that he is a rodent, acting after the law of his kind, and cools down and is contented to drive him off and guard the tree against his teeth for the future. [6]
- He had forborne telling her of her son; and she, whenever she had seen him, had contented herself with asking general questions, dreading in her heart that Jock had died a dreadful or shameful death, or else this gentleman would, voluntarily, say more. [11]
- Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberal-hearted farmer. [4]
- Such a dear, sweet, contented old soul! [4]
- But you must suit yourself, after all: if you are contented with a humble position in life, it is nobody's business that I know of. [6]
- Having wrung a submissive "I understand" from Dron, Alpatych contented himself with that, though he not only doubted but felt almost certain that without the help of troops the carts would not be forthcoming. [2]
- Through years of studied good-nature he had come to be regarded as a contented prisoner. [11]
- The temptation was strong, no doubt, when magistrates and ministers and all that followed their lead were contented with such an explanation. [3]
- Does the great Speckled Thunder sigh for the war-path, or is his heart contented with dreaming of the dusky maiden, the Pride of the Forest? [5]
- Anyhow, she can spare him sympathy and kindness and encouragement enough to keep him contented with himself and with her, and never miss the pulses of her loving life she lends him. [6]
- During the journey, sometimes in a peasant's cart, sometimes in a freight wagon, she had thought often of little Juliane, and always with a quiet, nay, a contented heart. [10]
- And I am so contented and happy with him. [2]
- With an ironical smile Psamtik sat watching this scene--the pleased faces of Amasis, Croesus and Gyges, the meaning glances of the Egyptians, and the contented looks with which Aristomachus gazed on the young heroes. [10]
- I have never seen a man with less envy, or more cheerfulness, or so contented with as little reason for being so. [4]
- After the second Scotch and much lazy and contented chat, Smith said: 'Now we are properly primed--I to tell a curious history and you to listen to it. [5]
- Upon this hostility, says Smith, the President was contented the fort should be palisaded, and the ordnance mounted, and the men armed and exercised. [4]
- As I was saying, Succarina is little, old, and grizzly; but her head is large, and one might be contented to be as wise as she looks. [4]
- A closer view revealed that most of them were contented, and some actually cheerful. [9]
- This makes me restless and dissatisfied with myself, and I am convinced I shall not feel comfortable and contented until my mind is fully employed. [4]
- The employed must recognize the necessity of an accumulated fund of capital, and on the other hand the employer must be as anxious to have about him a contented, prosperous community, as to heap up money beyond any reasonable use for it. [4]
- However, he has plenty of opportunities to feel contented with the way things go--his book is full of them. [5]
- I have never pictured a character more contented with himself than the "Scarabee" of this story. [6]
- Of course the people in the village could never be contented without learning everything there was to be learned about their visitor. [6]
- After it is over you will be much more contented, much happier, than you have been with me. [9]
- If they would only be contented with a little! [6]
- The rabble can only be contented among those of their own sort in the capital. [10]
- The light burned on; and they that worshipped it, And they that caught its flash at intervals and held it dear, Contented lived in its secure possession. [5]
- Dr. Lecher went on with his pantomime speech, contented, untroubled. [5]
- I contented myself, on that occasion, with denying, as I truly could, all connection with them, not denying or affirming whether they were passed at Springfield. [7]
- The vast majority of the sensible part of the medical profession were contented, so far as we can judge, to let it die out of itself. [3]
- If the prince of Asia were a just man, he would be contented with his own immense empire and not try to subjugate a people who had done him no wrong. [10]
- He must be nursed, petted, coddled, and kept contented, let the terms be what they may. [5]
- Perhaps he waw not so much at rest or so contented with her as with Alice. [5]
- Personally I have not known a Scientist who did not seem serene, contented, unharassed. [5]
- Perhaps she would not be contented if she were there, but she would be there; and as time goes on, to be where we were in all things which concern the affections, that is the great matter. [11]
- His writing has no enthusiasms, no aspiration; contented, self-respecting, and keeping the middle of the road. [6]
- I know that no better man than he exists, and I am calm and contented now. [2]
- The first two nights he contented himself with merely describing and exaggerating the chief dramatic incident of the Audience, but the third night he added illustration to description. [5]
- Lobsters, oysters, eels, mussels, fish and fowl, delicious fruit, including the grapes aforesaid,--if they only had "kine, horses, and sheep," he makes no question but men would live as contented here as in any part of the world. [3]
- Euthymia found so much pleasure in the intellectual companionship of Lurida, and felt her own prudence and reserve so necessary to that independent young lady, that she had been contented, so far, with friendship, and thought of love only in an abstract sort of way. [6]
- A contented spirit, Mr Richard, is the sweetness of existence. [12]
- Patiently awaiting a more fitting season, he therefore contented himself with questioning him carelessly about the foe and his castles. [10]
- She had never met a more contented soul or a franker disposition, and she could well understand how much it must fret and gall such a man to live on,--day after day, appearing, in one respect at any rate, different from what he really was. [10]
- That fact gave me food for thought, and contented me for a while. [9]
- However much you may be distressed about our candidate, you have all cause to be contented and happy with your own. [7]
- Wine moderately enjoyed makes the heart glad; and you don't look like a contented man. [10]
- This explanation being made to Powhatan greatly contented him, and he came on board and gave them the kindest farewell when they dropped down the river. [4]
- There was no long evening when we read alternately from some favorite book, or laid our deep housekeeping plans, rejoiced in a good bargain or made light of a poor one, and were contented and merry with little. [4]
- Let us take it for granted that we have seen enough of the miseries of warfare to last us for a while, and keep us contented with militia musters and sham-fights. [6]
- I thought it insane to take Soldier Boy to Spain, but it was well that I yielded to Cathy's pleadings; if he had been left behind, half of her heart would have remained with him, and she would not have been contented. [5]
- And yet yesterday in the oasis he had quietly submitted to far worse insults than Polykarp had offered him, and had accepted them with contented cheerfulness. [10]
- No lady is in the least interesting if restricted and contented with her restrictions,--a fact which the ladies of our nation are fast finding out. [9]
- I am glad if I deserve what you have said about me: and even if I don't I am proud and well contented, since you think I deserve it. [5]
- What I deplore, Hodder, is that you've contrived to make a hornets' nest out of the most peaceful and contented congregation in America. [9]
- But he contented himself with a brief defiance. [9]
- She commonly contented herself with the same exercises that her companions were accustomed to. [6]
- Jane had contented herself with silence. [13]
- What right had he to be contented with life? [9]
- But he seems he seems more tranquil and contented than I hoped to find him. [9]
- He thought if he could make his way to this, he would rest contented for a short time. [5]
- She would willingly have said a loving word to him, for his contented expression touched and comforted her, but that would just then have been too much after what she had gone through in her son's workroom. [10]
- He was always happy and contented with Alice. [5]
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