" Then, after a little pause, she said, more gravely, bending her face before her father's, "If you are contented with Fred?
I mean that Sophy is equal to the best in the town, and she is contented with that.
I am too entirely contented.
A bride (who is going to visit at a baronet's) must have a few first-rate pocket-handkerchiefs; but beyond the absolutely necessary half-dozen, Rosamond contented herself without the very highest style of embroidery and Valenciennes.
" Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked.
Not only young virgins of that town, but gray-bearded men also, were often in haste to conjecture how a new acquaintance might be wrought into their purposes, contented with very vague knowledge as to the way in which life had been shaping him for that instrumentality.
I'm contented to be no worse than my neighbors.
Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.
" So they all sat down on a great flat grey stone that had pushed itself up out of the grass; it was one of many that lay about on the hillside, and when Mother came out to look for them at eight o'clock, she found them deeply asleep in a contented, sun-warmed bunch.
The barge-horse was not capable of any very sustained effort, and its gallop soon subsided into a trot, and its trot into an easy walk; but Toad was quite contented with this, knowing that he, at any rate, was moving, and the barge was not.
The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.
Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time.
The strength of her feelings she could not express; the nature of them, however, contented her friend.
I am fond of history—and am very well contented to take the false with the true.
He remained with them some time, and was only too agreeable for Catherine to be contented when he went away.
Her own family were plain, matter-of-fact people who seldom aimed at wit of any kind; her father, at the utmost, being contented with a pun, and her mother with a proverb; they were not in the habit therefore of telling lies to increase their importance, or of asserting at one moment what they would contradict the next.
Their joy on this meeting was very great, as well it might, since they had been contented to know nothing of each other for the last fifteen years.
Then he would suddenly appear at breakfast, having let himself in with his latchkey the night before, very jovial and good-natured and free-handed and glad if she would allow him to give her something—a well-fed man, contented with the world; a jolly, full-blooded, satisfied man.
To be sure, they seem contented enough; but then, I suppose, they're used to it.
Lakelands proper is a contented village of two dozen houses situated on a forlorn, narrow-gauge railroad line.
