Sentence example with the word 'contenting'

contenting

Last update: October 15, 2015


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He was the first of his class who endeavoured to trace the causes of events, instead of contenting himself with a bare statement of facts.   [Please select]

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Fancy a scientist with a new bird to label, contenting himself with one word.   [Please select]

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Their cannonade was not resumed that afternoon, the Dahomans contenting themselves with skirmishing round the walls.   [Please select]

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"Your experience in life has been fortunate," I replied, contenting myself with the second-best cake.   [Please select]

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The hotels were overcrowded, many notables contenting themselves with servants' quarters.   [Please select]

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Taine, wisely, for the time, dropped the subject; contenting herself with a meaning laugh.   [Please select]

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The Southern Congress had been criminally slow in coming to conscription, contenting itself with an army of 400,000 men that existed "on paper."   [Please select]

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