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1. seventy-seven, when the world around us was crashing down amid the discontent of
2. colloquial term, loved silence but with love comes an inevitable discontent
3. Smith, using a modern colloquial term, loved silence but with love comes an inevitable discontent
4. They’re both of an age that has shared the vicissitudes of the Three Day Week, the Winter of Discontent and New Labour's protracted birth pangs amid Thatcher's dose of social realism, but the horizons on view throughout their shared histories have been very different
5. "All those preaching peace and brotherhood on one hand and firing off anger, discontent and bomb throwing on the other
6. these discontent persons had been only a few, we could
7. Where the security of the magistrate, though supported by the principal people of the country, is endangered by every popular discontent; where a small tumult is capable of bringing about in a few hours a great revolution, the whole authority of government must be employed to suppress and punish every murmur and complaint against it
8. It was a strange coincidence that Carl should guess the source of his discontent so easily
9. Perhaps the world had stagnated in the way they’d suggested, it’s populace too concerned with insular matters, and all the while a simmering discontent of those less fortunate
10. A truism as ever: no matter how much better or easier life became for the poorest there would never be acceptance; more discontent now than ever
11. this is the cause of discontent to those who do not participate in the rewards
12. The Winter of Our Discontent, n
13. This likely led to the discontent in Cuba that caused over 125,000 Cubans to flee to Florida in boats or by seeking refuge in embassies
14. When discontent and misery set in, a common reaction is to look for someone to blame for our feeling of unhappiness – while being oblivious to the fact that it was our unwholesome motive in the first place that is now the cause of our despondency![22]
15. They predict that the process will only continue to grow and become more powerful, will be well attuned to the Internet, and will be propelled by “the winds of economic and social discontent
16. discontent without even knowing it, reflecting our unhappiness off everything we encounter
17. That way simply led to unhappiness and discontent as she had seen within her own family
18. Leaving the wealth to the Israelites to divide amongst themselves would have caused immense dissent and delayed the advance, and invariably, discontent would have set in, jeopardizing the vision
19. community into an Army of the Discontent, to be used as a weapon against liberty
20. The few times he tried to create a mind-world in which he could be himself, it was quickly destroyed by his discontent
21. “I am not a young man anymore!” he had complained to Moses in a rare moment of open discontent
22. There would always be discontent, but rarely, in the last year-cycles, any open attack
23. A hairball falls from the mouth of discontent
24. businesslike voice with no hint of the sudden discontent over the
25. Waves of discontent are larger than expected
26. Joe was very discontent about hearing that Margaret was coming with them
27. and did not approve of discontent as applied to environment, but taught that
28. And yet, not a day would pass when they would not express resentful discontent with the man of God,
29. refer to in my book, / Wil , as happy discontent
30. he had, but discontent to remain happy with them since he felt he could, and had
31. discontent or that he is de-motivated
32. Pam had been clueless about her husband’s discontent
33. After the commencement of the winter semester, the day to day routine of university life seemed pedestrian and dull and his discontent began to affect his work
34. The plan is to encourage discontent in the home and have women seek satisfaction in the job market
35. The documents detailed plans to control most aspects of our lives, from intrusion into family structure to international plots to over throw governments and cause discontent
36. For the hapless Sir Richard it was indeed the afternoon of his discontent
37. Trying to sequester the feelings of discontent and sorrow that permeated the atmosphere but being ineffective in her endeavours, Elizabeth secretly offered her services to help bring this evil to a quick and final rest
38. I can only say that I sense an evil presence in this hotel, but for the time I cannot link it to any specific source of discontent or disturbance
39. discontent and uneasiness with the subject
40. ‘The discontent was harnessed by a friend of mine, Harry Thuku, a post-office telephonist, whose formation of the East African Association attracted the support of the Indian community of Nairobi and farm workers from the rural areas
41. The simultaneous loss of the three top American military officers, along with the wave of discontent that was bound to go through the ranks of the armed forces, was going to seriously perturb the military chain of command
42. that against his own reservations of stoking the fire of discontent that
43. on fueling the fires of discontent over Jeremy’s death
44. to her that perhaps their relationship was the focus of his discontent
45. He belted out his discontent for all to hear
46. She turned to go, meaning to leave the detectives alone, but was delayed by Rudolph who sensed in her strong undertones of discontent
47. The Netherlands were subsequently defeated by the English in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the huge debt France faced exacerbated internal discontent that helped lead to France’s own civil war within ten years
48. The culture is one of regulation and discouragement, full of discontent and litigation; and requiring increased career or business investment
49. calm in the face of hate and discontent,
50. Isis hissed, her ears going flat, vocalizing discontent with a growl descending in pitch, offering an
1. The thought made his brow furrow again, discontented with the rate of change in his world
2. Nathan thought she looked kind of attractive with symmetrical features, typical Dutch, wide jaw, pert nose, blue eyes and thick eyebrows, but discontented
3. All except Celine who was still upstairs where she was more than definitely, seriously discontented
4. slums; they always made him miserable and discontented
5. over-fed, discontented, lonely old bachelor on the splendid side of the
6. Her base remains discontented populists within the party, some Fox News viewers, what would shortly become the Tea Party, and male sexists who support her simply for finding her physically attractive
7. 2 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him;
8. The commanders of the Civil War, augmented by the chronically discontented, attack and lay waste where they can
9. He will be discontented
10. He who is discontented with however much he possesses, becomes a slave to his desires
11. become happily discontented with things as they are
12. This confused and discontented apostle, notwithstanding his Master's specific request to refrain from entering Jerusalem, went in haste to keep his appointment with Jesus' enemies at the home of Caiaphas the high priest
13. " He paused looking thoughtfully discontented, then he smiled and said, "I suppose it could help if we're forced into action, but personally, if that happens, I'm going to blow the shit out of anything that moves
14. May God bless them with roaring success in all their undertakings! But the question is: Can all these comforts and scientific discoveries and inventions give immortality, eternal satisfaction and everlasting peace? Have these material comforts enhanced human happiness? Is not man more restless today than ever before? Is he not more dissatisfied and discontented despite all these comforts? Life has become more complex and intricate
15. discontented ones are the children that parents cling to, to provide
16. When other heard that he was there, they went to join him: “And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him” (I Sam 22 : 2)
17. ” To not be satisfied is to always compete, to want more, to be discontented
18. It is years since I have observed that the principled groan a good deal and make discontented criticisms of life, and I don't think I care to be one of them
19. What an extremely discontented creature I would become if I spent my days embedded in the luxury you, by a curious perverseness, think should be piled around me
20. " Must one be discontented, though, when one was old, she wondered? Was it really inevitable? The Lapland night lady wasn't
21. I asked him whether my being miserable and discontented would help any one or make him less wretched; and he said that we all had to take up our burdens
22. Once more she struggled with the bra and gave a few discontented words as she fiddled with straps and tiny clasps
23. One of the suggestions is that, if, during a hunt, you become discontented with something, or you have a problem, you should tell your guide
24. We could change our home or our partner countless times, but until we change our restless, discontented mind we shall never find true happiness
25. When people are discontented with their careers, they
26. discontented, be grieved, be bound with a bond, be affected, loathes, lust, have
27. DISCONTENTED [soul - nehphesh] one time
28. "Everyone that was discontented [soul - nehphesh]" 1 Samuel
29. DISCONTENTED (soul–nehphesh) one time: "Everyone that was discontented (soul–nehphesh)" 1 Samuel
30. It can die, it can be dead, be killed, be sought to kill, be smote, die from a lack of food or water, be cut off, be murdered, be delivered from death, be born, live, sorrow, eat, drink water, desire, be discontented, be grieved, be bound with a bond, be affected, loathes, lust, have anguish, etc
31. DISCONTENTED (nehphesh) one time: "Everyone that was discontented (nehphesh)" 1 Samuel
32. The moment he was a bit certain, he started his car and left, discontented
33. "Everyone that was discontented [soul -
34. It is usually explained by a discontented «top»
35. And yet, with all these good things, which are commonly all that men need to enable them to live happily, I am the most discontented and dissatisfied man in the whole world; for, I know not how long since, I have been harassed and oppressed by a desire so strange and so unusual, that I wonder at myself and blame and chide myself when I am alone, and strive to stifle it and hide it from my own thoughts, and with no better success than if I were endeavouring
36. "I ought, but I don't," thought Amy, as her eye went from the bright page to May's discontented face behind the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty work had once filled
37. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer
38. She was previously disposed, I believe, to doubt the morality of my conduct in general, and was moreover discontented with the very little attention, the very little portion of my time that I had bestowed on her, in my present visit
39. And so long as this is true, so long as a man can think and clearly picture to himself a more desirable life, he will be discontented with the life he has to live, and rightly so
40. Nothing deterred by the smallness of his audience, which, in truth, consisted only of the discontented scout, he raised his voice, commencing and ending the sacred song without accident or interruption of any kind
41. "It is not for one like me to say that he who is already formed by so powerful a hand as Providence, stands in need of a change," muttered the discontented scout
42. It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world; but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me
43. `I wish I could open your eyes to the true misery of our condition: injustice, tyranny and oppression!' said a discontented hack to a weary-looking cob as they stood side by side in unhired cabs
44. He felt humiliated and discontented; he did not even feel drunk; and he had only twopence in his pocket
45. Wopsle, conceding his fin with a gracious dignity, was immediately shoved into a dusty corner, while everybody danced a hornpipe; and from that corner, surveying the public with a discontented eye, became aware of me
46. At another window of the same house, moreover, appeared old Mistress Hibbins, the Governor's sister, also with a lamp, which, even thus far off, revealed the expression of her sour and discontented face
47. Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor, surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes; and bade a resolute farewell to the liberty, the comparative youth, the light step, leaping impulses and secret pleasures, that I had enjoyed in the disguise of Hyde
48. Marta had credited him with the possession of sane views, and even with a restraining power over the general's everlastingly discontented vanity
49. He was altogether discontented with the result of a contrivance which had cost him some secret humiliation beforehand
50. Some of her intensest experience in the last two years had set her mind strongly in opposition to any unfavorable construction of others; and for the first time she felt rather discontented with Mr
1. There is a strange irony in the fact that an avowedly Christian website titled “Christians Together” (an oxymoron?) over a period of months published a number of scathing and sometimes even poisonous comments about the Church of Scotland, mainly by members of other traditions or by discontents who have left the Kirk and want to claim a monopoly of the high moral, spiritual and Biblical ground for themselves
2. Power can’t stay cool due to attitudes swept by discontents due to incompatible principles existing in the mind
3. All these jealousies and discontents, however, were so totally unsuspected by Mrs
4. That crime has been the origin of every lesser one, and of all his present discontents
5. His antipathy to Will did not spring from the common jealousy of a winter-worn husband: it was something deeper, bred by his lifelong claims and discontents; but Dorothea, now that she was present—Dorothea, as a young wife who herself had shown an offensive capability of criticism, necessarily gave concentration to the uneasiness which had before been vague
6. Edmund Burke, “Thoughts on the cause of the Present discontents”, in: The Works
7. Has the embargo answered? Is there any probability, the slightest indication, that it will answer? Has it operated, to any perceptible extent, except upon ourselves, during the twelvemonth it has been in existence? If, then, neither the remembrance of the past, nor the prospect of the future, gives the least encouragement to hope, why will gentlemen persist in the system? And that too, sir, at an expense to their own country so enormous in amount? Will they go on obstinately amid all the discontents, or clamors (as gentlemen in very anti-republican language call the voice of the people) in the Eastern and Northern States? And that from mere obstinacy—an obstinacy not encouraged by the least glimmering of hope? If I could be pointed to a single fact, produced by the operation of the embargo, which would prove that it had any other effect on the disposition of Great Britain than to irritate—or any other on France than to please, than to encourage her to a perseverance in that system of injustice which we pretend to oppose, but to the policy of which we give all our support with an infatuated wilfulness, and which, therefore, increases the hostility Great Britain has felt from the measure—if they could show me, sir, that the embargo will bring either to terms, I would abandon the opposition at once, and come heart and hand into the support of your measures
8. Smilie said, if there were no other reason, the present suspension of commerce, and discontents at home, were sufficient reasons for calling Congress earlier than the first Monday in December
9. A great deal has been said about repealing the embargo to put an end to discontents
10. This measure has been thus far pursued for these great purposes; and it has been patiently borne with to this day, by the nation at large, the partial discontents which have appeared in some particular parts of the country only excepted
11. I consider it as the most important period, at which the conduct of this House might render that measure effectually coercive, if it ever can be made so at all—and why, sir, do I think so? Because, in the first place, I conceive it cannot even be a question whether the British Government has not calculated on the discontents, which appeared in some particular parts of the Union, so as to derive at least some expectation therefrom that those discontents might make such impression on Congress as to induce them to raise the embargo in the course of this session
12. Those discontents, no doubt, excited grateful expectations of its removal
13. The attempt to dismember our Union, and overthrow our excellent constitution, by a secret mission, the object of which was to foment discontents and excite insurrection against the constituted authorities and laws of the nation, as lately disclosed by the agent employed in it, affords full proof that there is no bound to the hostility of the British Government towards the United States; no act, however unjustifiable, which it would not commit to accomplish their ruin
