I would be content to own every one of them.

I was content just being top 10 in the world.

I was quite content to be taken on as her project.

However, no one is content to leave well enough alone.

Most members of Congress are content for now to watch the action.

The little boy might be content, but she was not.

But a man can be content to know nothing more.

After a while, he was content to live with both.

After all, she would not be content with one child only.

At the moment I was content to let things be.

Perhaps more content than any other time in her life.

But for now, he was content to just look at her.

I used to be quite content with being by myself.

And yet I'm the one he was most content with.

My work here is done, and I am well content.

He had never felt so content in his life before.

The other two were talking, and I was content to let them.

But Will was content, so no one in the family said anything.

I was content with their decision, for the time being.

I was very content to just leave them alone and watch.

"Will you be content to stay here when your father goes away?"

Her mother was quite content to have the thing done.

When she turned to leave again, he was content to stay.

He was content with less for all but one day a year.

But, as will be seen, she was not content with their company.

He did not do so now, contenting himself with a deep bow.

While there he painted very little, contenting himself with society life.

But she does not, contenting herself with a satisfied little smile.

He made no plays, however, merely contenting himself with looking on.

Indeed, lately I have difficulty contenting myself with only looking at this world.

Torres shut up after that, contenting herself with following the captain.

He started to shake his head but thought better of it, contenting himself with a simple, "No.

He'd never looked closely at her work before, contenting himself with her stories.

He did not attempt it, contenting himself with hiding in the shadows on the off side of the road.

Let not youth fly away without contenting; Age will come time enough for your repenting.

Some chefs fade at dessert, contenting themselves with sweet, pretty things.

Do you think I could have done that contenting myself with drinking lemonade?"

We never knew his name, contenting ourselves with calling him the "Bricklayer."

For now, however, reporters here are contenting themselves with pursuing more recent chapters of Taiwan's history.

Henceforth, indeed, he did not conduct again, contenting to giving some music lessons.

Ordinary people with average skills were better off contenting themselves with the sensible.

"Do you know how hard it's been," he asked quietly, "contenting myself with that?

The reasons are nothing more than resting on laurels and contenting with little achievement.

Contenting himself with his wine, Sebastian leaned back in his chair.

Contented by this, Caesar designed and began engineering an impressive siege apparatus.

He made no effort to struggle, contenting himself with keeping afloat and regulating his breathing.

But he ceased speaking, apparently contenting himself with glowering at the Enterprise crew.

She was pleasant when addressed but limited her answers, contenting herself with enigmatic smiles.

Brother Paul refrained from whistling, contenting himself with a grave nod.

"The aircraft can't land in this thick foliage, so they are contenting themselves with marking our position for their ground party."

One has to content oneself with the idea that all means, however slight, must be seized upon in order to set up better legal assistance.

Better to content oneself with the small success.

Contenting oneself with reacting to an external stimulus means being unconscious of the act; an existence within the sheer presence of the body.

It has long been necessary to content oneself with studying the Hellenistic influences in Roman frescoes, for example those of Pompeii or Herculaneum.

To treat the issue lightly, or to content oneself with an approximation on the subject is a criminal attitude which has already causes dozens and dozens of deaths, not only in France, I am told.

On Mykonos, one had to content oneself with Konsolina "house" or rely on the Epistates (police official) of the Antiquities, in which case the competition between potential visitors to Delos must have been rough.

The book was inspired by an accidental discovery (made when he was vice president of marketing at NewsEdge) that creating useful content oneself and publishing it on-line at virtually no cost was consistently more effective than expensive profession public relations programs.

We later hear Mr. Fischer-Dieskau say that one rarely gets as much as halfway toward what one is attempting when interpreting a great piece of music, and that eventually one must content oneself to say, "weiter komm' ich nicht": roughly, "that's as far as I'm going to get just now."