Слово "content". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission.

Bill is puffing and blowing, but there is a look of ineffable peace and growing content on his rose-pink features.

She made a salad of it at once, and ate of it to her heart's content.

Our progress was leisurely, and gave me ample time to reflect; I was content to be at length so near the end of my journey; and as I leaned back in the comfortable though not elegant conveyance, I meditated much at my ease.

So you must try to be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls," said Beth, stroking the rough head with a hand that all the dish washing and dusting in the world could not make ungentle in its touch.

He was contented with his piano and his books.

"But one must not complain," said Poirot again. "I am content to suffer - for a good cause."

Nor would it have been singular had they ceased to remember that the House of Seven Gables was resting its heavy framework on a foundation that was rightfully their own. There is something so massive, stable, and almost irresistibly imposing, in the exterior presentment of established rank and great possessions, that their very existence seems to give them a right to exist; at least, so excellent a counterfeit of right, that few poor and humble men have moral force enough to question it, even in their secret minds. Such is the case now, after so many ancient prejudices have been overthrown; and it was far more so in ante-revolutionary days, when aristocracy could venture to be proud, and the low were content to be abased.

He had annexed him as a surgeon selects a special knife or instrument for an operation, and, shrewd as old Laughlin was, he was destined to be no more than a tool in Cowperwood’s strong hands, a mere hustling messenger, content to take orders from this swiftest of moving brains.

My wife seemed content with this answer.

M. Poirot was content to watch the teeming activity of the station through a window pane.

we'll reach a point where we'll be content.

In spite, or perhaps, because, of that for it is my vice to spend too long on a canvas, never content to leave well alone — those four paintings are particular favourites of mine, and it was their success, both with myself and others, that confirmed me in what has since been my career.

None of you has ever seen a dead donkey,’ and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.

She would not see Roger and he had to content himself with calling at her lodgings to inquire and sending her flowers.