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  • Charlie answered, laughing; ‘we young scamps must be well-content with coarser stuff than thou wouldst have.’

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • She allowed him to break the connec'tion, and sat back in her chair, well-content for just a moment.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • That should have made them all well-content, but it didn't.

    The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • Most of the Mamelukes would have been well-content to have seen the last of him.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • She rested against him well-content, and Stane's arm about her tightened its grip; then they came back to the little world about them, at the sound of the policeman's voice.

    A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns

  • Meleagant in the hearing of all, both great and small, spoke thus to his father boastingly: "Father," he says, "so help me God, please tell me truly now whether he ought not to be well-content, and whether he is not truly brave, who can cause his arms to be feared at King Arthur's court?"

    Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914

  • Therefore he went away, outwardly well-content with his morning, but inwardly full of wrath that his heart had refused the guidance of his mind.

    Lahoma 1913

  • He paced to and fro in the moonlight there, and she, well-content, reclined upon the cushions of the divan, a thing of infinite grace, her gleaming eyes discreetly veiled from him -- waiting until her poison should have done its work.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Michael had done all his business and was well-content to spend the remainder of his day in mediaeval Cairo.

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • And yet he had never been so deeply conscious of the gulf which lay between the oriental fatalism of his life and ways and the placid self-assurance of these westerners, so well-content with the earth upon which their feet fell.

    The Great Prince Shan 1906

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