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Meanings of always contented in English

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Usage of always contented in English
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She, too, like Mr Whittlestaff, was always contented to pass unobserved.
An Old Man's Love
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This was a favourite expression of his; and he was always contented, whatever happened.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief / Or, An Englishman's Adventures in th...
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A hero is always contented with a venison pasty and a horn of sack.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
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To avoid these disadvantages, the people are always contented to delegate part of their power.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
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But when I'm with you, Aunt Ella, I'm always contented and feel perfectly at home.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks / A Picture of New ...
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Thou art always contented, O Brahmana, and dost not seem to regard anything in the world.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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He was quite a philosopher in his way, always happy, always contented; nothing came amiss to him.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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In Stineli's company he was always contented.
Rico and Wiseli
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Men of wisdom, however, are always contented.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
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Those who are always contented and happy are a most gracious contribution from God to a discontented world.
Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians
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I never saw the Ecitons injure the Hypoclineas themselves, they were always contented with despoiling them of their young.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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And "contented cows." Cows are always contented.
Vignettes of San Francisco
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And he's always contented now.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
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I have always contented myself with your being perfect, or, if your modesty demands a mitigated term, I will say, unexceptionable.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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This fact is not contradicted by the undoubted fact that prostitutes are by no means always contented with the life they choose.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 / Sex in Relation to ...
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Give him his drawing-table, his plans, his models, the noise of machinery, the clatter of the foundry, and he is always contented.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 / A Magazine...
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