contenteth

But that name contenteth me not: whereof a word or two hereafter shall be sayd.

The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567

Then they embarked after fashioning two pieces of wood into the likeness of paddles and casting off the rope-moorings, let the raft drift out to sea with them, committing themselves to Allah the Most High, who contenteth those that put their trust in Him and disappointeth not them who rely upon Him.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“O my son, be not troubled nor careful, but come with me to the market and if any offer for thy goods what price contenteth thee, take it; but, an thou be not satisfied, I will lay them up for thee in my warehouse, against a fitting occasion for sale.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So we went along, beginning at St. Gervase, and I got the pardons at the first box only, for in those matters very little contenteth me.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

So we went along, beginning at St. Gervase, and I got the pardons at the first box only, for in those matters very little contenteth me.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The gentlemen and merchants keep much about one rate, and each of them contenteth himself with four, five, or six dishes, when they have but small resort, or peradventure with one, or two, or three at the most, when they have no strangers to accompany them at their tables.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

But your loue incensed with one, whose maners and life contenteth you: so you bothe are linked together,

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

It contenteth wise artificers to have their instruments proportionable to their work, rather fit for use than huge and goodly to please the eye.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Now, these odd repasts—thanked be God! —are very well left, and each one in manner (except here and there some young, hungry stomach that cannot fast till dinner-time) contenteth himself with dinner and supper only.

Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6 1909

The gentlemen and merchants keep much about one rate, and each of them contenteth himself with four, five, or six dishes, when they have but small resort, or peradventure with one, or two, or three at the most, when they have no strangers to accompany them at their tables.

Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6 1909