Example Sentences

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The well-fed man is an animal because satiety is the self-contentedness of the body.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman

He would mention the ten years of his life, from twenty-five to thirty-five years of age, as a period very deficient in self-contentedness.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

His mind was full of that intense spiritual life of Catherine's which in its wonderful self-contentedness and strength was always a marvel, sometimes a reproach to him.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.