The enchanted automobile was sent by the fairy godmother of a lazy, discontented little prince and princess to take them to fairyland, where they might visit their storybook favorites.
She was glad that they were all happy, but somehow it irritated her to feel that she was the only discontented one.
To think," she added, as Lloyd joined them, "when I first came to the Wigwam I was so lonesome and discontented that I wanted to die.
Hiding his annoyance as much as he could, Bill tried to convince him how nice porridge really is and how good for him, but the discontented old man, who no doubt had been very much spoilt as a boy, would hear nothing of it.
One error of judgment which has largely helped to thwart Prince Nikola's hopes is the fact that, alarmed lest foreign luxury should make his sons discontented with their stony fatherland, he would not send them abroad to be educated.
Lobatcheff and Petar Plamenatz, however, gave all their energies to working on this element and keeping it as discontented as possible.
The Moslems are not grateful for 'benefits' they do not want, and the Christians are discontented and annoyed, as in Bosnia.
Mervale began to envy him,--to be discontented with his own regular and slow gains.
Humiliating recollections of the great masters he aspired to rival forced themselves upon him; defects before unseen magnified themselves to deformities in his languid and discontented eyes.
Defn: One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts.
When she died, many discontented Tories fanned the spirit of rebellion; and Bishop Atterbury, a distinguished divine, advocated the claims of the Pretender.
The civil war of the Fronde, though headed by discontented nobles, and animated by the intrigues of a turbulent ecclesiastic, was really the contest between the parliament and the arbitrary power of the government.
He failed; and instead of bequeathing to his successors the power which he enjoyed, he left them vast debts, a distracted empire, and a discontented people.
But a deliverer was raised up in the person of Captain John Smith, who extricated the suffering and discontentedband from the evils which impended.
William was ambitious, and did not disdain the overtures which the discontented nobles of England made to him.
In this demand for discharge the officers, who should have been the men's instructors in such a case, made the matter hopeless by joining the discontented soldiery.
The volunteers whose power Jackson was thus able to use in arresting the departure of the militia were scarcely less discontented than they.
Jackson had ordered the enlistment of a new force to take the place of these discontented men, but until the new army should come he was bent upon keeping the old one.
It was too late to undo the mischief he had done by advising the discharge of the discontented militia, but he set to work at once to provide men to take their places.
The moment they arrive, and I am assured that, fired by our exploits, they will hasten in crowds on the first intimation that we need their services, they will be substituted in the place of those who are discontented here.
When Philip returned to Madrid in the beginning of 1703, he found the finances more embarrassed, the people more discontented and the hostile coalition more formidable than ever.
That the nation became more and more discontented every year, that every House of Commons was more unmanageable than that which had preceded it, were facts which it was impossible not to perceive.
Hence the heaviness, the incapacity of thought, the discontented temper; which are the consequence of excess in physical indulgence; hence the wonderful effects of wine upon those who always drink in moderation.
Louis of Nassau burned for the cause which he defended, Brederode for the glory of being its defender; the former was satisfied in acting for his party, the latter discontented if he did not stand at its head.
Man should be content with each step of progress merely as a station, discontented with it as a destination; contented with it as a step; discontented with it as a finality.
I was then in too discontented a mood to profit by my mother's words, but many times in after years were they recalled forcibly to my mind.
His step was far less brisk than formerly, his hair was fast turning gray, and I fancied that his countenance wore even a more unhappy and discontented look than usual.
I had an elegant little place myself when I was first married," Mrs. Page continued, in a sort of discontented sing-song.
Between the two extremes stood the discontented Moderates, who indulged freely in grumbling without knowing how the unsatisfactory state of things was to be remedied.
But he did not chafe under this, as in other circumstances he might have done: for the present he was sufficiently occupied, and not at all discontented with his life.
Here an indescribable, unearthly noise was heard from the interior of the tree, like the wailing of some discontented ghost.
Both were discontented with the lot which Fortune had assigned them.
When he was a boy, he used to work in grandfather's store up to Hampton; but he got sort ofdiscontented and went to Boston.
My readers, who are familiar with Mr. Ferguson's views and ways of life, will at once see that this was unjust, but justice cannot be expected from an angry and discontented man.
But though old and wise enough now to rule, and sure to be gladly received by the discontented people, they found that they no longer felt bitter and angry with those who had wronged them.
He was soured, disappointed, discontented with everybody and everything, involved in litigation first with his father, and then with his own children.
He tells his wife not to be discontented that his silence has been so long, but to be thankful that it was not eternal, as it was very near being!
Dined at home, discontented that my wife do not go neater now she has two maids.
I do not think that the purely Ideal either elevates or instructs; in fact unless the Real is the basis of the design, it is an illusion that only makes one discontented with nature.
There was an expression of discontent and disdain on his face which Margaret thought very disagreeable; but at any rate he was just as much discontented with himself as he was with other people, and no doubt with equally good reason.
