Farmers in overalls and wide-brimmed straw hats lounge about the store on hot summer days, when the most common sound is the thump...-thump-thump of a hound's leg on the floor as he scratches contentedly. Oldtime hunters say that fleas are a hound's salvation: his constant twisting and clawing in pursuit of the tormentors keeps his joints supple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can marry Lorraine, my fortune will be restored to her, and you can live contentedly together ever after. Now that's a proper ...ending to a story, isn't it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are c...omfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've always reminded me of a seagull, Jo. Strong and wild and fond of the wind and storms. And dreaming of flying far off to sea.... And Mother always said that I was like a little cricket. Chirping contentedly on the hearth, never able to bear the thought of leaving home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between... The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave Of a great flood that whirls me to the sea.... But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, And eat our pot of honey on the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gent...ly lay themselves down and turn to mould!--painted of a thousand hues, and fit to make the beds of us living. So they troop to their last resting-place, light and frisky.... They that soared so loftily, how contentedly they return to dust again, and are laid low, resigned to lie and decay at the foot of the tree, and afford nourishment to new generations of their kind, as well as to flutter on high! They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when men, with their boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and as ripe,--with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed their bodies, as they do their hair and nails.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before it...s door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »