contentments

Postwar British citizens, in Mr. Kynaston's account, seem overwhelmingly taken up with private matters, whether the everyday challenges of getting by or the pursuit of domestic pleasures and contentments.

The Living Was Not Easy 2008

There were silver points of hair in his brush mustache, still so few they were countable, and he wore rimless spectacles with wire temples because at thirty-eight, or so said his wife, he wanted to convince himself he was older, settled in his contentments, all the roil-some things finally buttoned and done.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

There were silver points of hair in his brush mustache, still so few they were countable, and he wore rimless spectacles with wire temples because at thirty-eight, or so said his wife, he wanted to convince himself he was older, settled in his contentments, all the roil-some things finally buttoned and done.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

There were silver points of hair in his brush mustache, still so few they were countable, and he wore rimless spectacles with wire temples because at thirty-eight, or so said his wife, he wanted to convince himself he was older, settled in his contentments, all the roil-some things finally buttoned and done.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

But by safety here is not meant a bare preservation, but also all other contentments of life, which every man by lawful industry, without danger or hurt to the Commonwealth, shall acquire to himself.

Leviathan 2007

In a white room with black curtains in the station blackroof country no go pavements tired starlings silver horses burnt out moonbeams in your dark eyes done like smile on your evening by contentments!

Kitteh: 1 - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

It, like all my other contentments, was socketed deeply in this one place—the only home I really remembered.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

It, like all my other contentments, was socketed deeply in this one place—the only home I really remembered.

CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

Earthly supports and contentments are but a thousand failing wiles, which will all vanish in the time of need; the gospel, and Christ in the gospel, is that "unum magnum," that "unum necessarium," which alone will stand us in any stead.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

That his pains, labour, travail, jeopards of his life and all that was dear to him, relinquishment of relations and contentments, had sweetness and life from this motive, even intenseness of affection to his people, the people of whom he was, and whose prosperity he did desire, needs no farther demonstration than the great neglect of self and all self-concernments which dwelt upon him in all his tremendous undertakings.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968