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Example sentences for "well content"

  • I am well content, cousin, with matters as they are; and would not stay ashore and spend my life in writing, not to be as rich as the greatest merchant in Plymouth.

  • But now, since I see you be so well content that I shall not forbear boldly to show my folly, I will be no more so shamefast but will ask you what I like.

  • For so ought they both twain themselves to be well content that I should.

  • I am glad you are so well content with my guardianship.

  • Ah, I see and am well content," catching sight of Annis' sweet, blushing face.

  • The longing is not likely to hasten my departure, dear," replied the sweet voice of her mother, "and I am well content to stay a while longer with my dear ones here if the will of God be so.

  • The other bright beatitude, that seem'd Erewhile, with lilied crowning, well content To over-canopy the M.

  • She is well content to-night, for this lad hath brought news of his brother's marriage.

  • Why yes, she told me how you spoke to her the day the Mayflower sailed, and she modestly avows that she is well content to be thy wife.

  • If it be God's will I for one shall be well content to return hither and end my days.

  • For myself, I shall be well content to do what fighting is required, and to leave all these matters in your hands.

  • I am well content with my estates, and need no foot of English land, no share in English spoil I must fight for my liege lord as long as fighting goes on, but that over I hope to return here and live in peace.

  • For years now the king has left all matters in the hands of Harold, and is well content if only he can fast and pray like any monk, and give all his thoughts and treasure to the building of yonder abbey.

  • At the last he opens it, and lo a fine Lace of the new fashion for my bosom, and I do well perceive that my Lady hath been at him, and am well content I did break the matter to her, though an honest gown had been more to my Purpose.

  • For my part, I am well content, and wish Her Royal Highness joy without grimace.

  • And the people went home right well content, and I doubt not drank to the confusion of all pirates, as well as to the health of the young Prince, that is to preserve the realm to us in years to come.

  • If the nosegay promised to be somewhat large and straggling, at least it would be sweet-scented, and she felt pretty sure that her father would be well content with it.

  • At this moment, she convinced herself, she bore no ill-will at all against the good parson: only that she had it in her mind that she would be well content to remain a player's daughter.

  • Cried Gobertz, well content, "If love by dreariment Cometh, that was well spent, As I find.

  • The cuckoo haileth loud The open sky; no cloud Doth fleck the earth's blue tent; The land laughs, well content To put off winter shroud.

  • I am well content to remain on board here, and to look at the city which has so often been the theatre of great deeds--which Richard the Lion Heart captured, and which so many of the Hospitallers died to defend.

  • You may be, lad, for aught I know; and I should be well content to know that it was so.

  • Edgar saw that the interview was over, and left the tent, well content that he had been able to refuse the offer without exciting the anger of the sheik.

  • I should be well content to go to the same heaven that receives you and Dapple.

  • By leaning a little against the wall as well as the back of my bench, I also, well content, could look straight before me like the others.

  • I, and all there is of me, is a small price to pay for this home and its inmates; and if I saved her little finger from being scorched, I should be well content.

  • I shall go back to it to-morrow, well content, after this day's experience, to make it my mistress.

  • Well content to have obtained the permission Ned hurried from the room.

  • As you say, my partners might be well content to let me do so; but that is not the question, I should not be content myself.

  • There is no need in any way for you to come to any resolution on the subject at present; I shall be well content to wait until you come of age.

  • Were it not for this, they would be well content to live here.

  • All I know is this: that all will be well for us all, and of such a kind that all who do not sigh for the moon will be well content.

  • Nothing remains but the knowledge that all will be well for us all, and of such a kind that those who do not sigh for the moon will be well content.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    labor legislation; then dried; well adapted; well bred; well contented; well developed; well doing; well enough; well grounded; well guarded; well inhabited; well know; well known; well mixed; well mounted; well pleas; well preserved; well qualified; well seen; well suited; well taken; well tell; well that; well used; well with; well worth