"If man is to find contentment in God, he must find himself in God."
In the presidential election of 1880 the Republican party carried the day after an unusually quiet canvass, a result largely due to popular contentment with the then existing state of public affairs.
The history of the country became one of peaceful progress marked by the growing contentment of the people.
Cobden was thus relegated to private life, and retiring to his country house at Dunford, he spent his time in perfect contentment in cultivating his land and feeding his pigs.
She was truly beautiful, resting there, color beginning to return to her cheeks and a look of contentment that only sleep could bring, a look that would surely be absent in the morning.
Our new life in Keene produced a comfortable level of contentment we'd never previously experienced.
He appears to have enjoyed no great reputation as an architect, and, with philosophic contentment, records that he possessed but little fortune.
What was it about him that filled her with such a feeling of contentment and excitement at the same time?
The cheerful, almost jovial, tone of his letters to Stella evinces his full contentment, nor was he one to be moved to gratitude for small mercies.
The contentment that consumed her body and soul wasn't merely the satisfaction of lovemaking.
Dean vacillated between the contentment of inactivity and the frustration of trying to change the unchangeable.
Of contentment and not of benefit ?
Her sigh was a mixture of contentment and relief.
