2146 examples of discontent in sentences

You may silence discontent, you may suppress spiteful innuendos and even sulky looks, you may put down mutiny, by sheer terror.

They make a bold face of discontent.

But in addition there is a more doubtful and delicate class of case, arising out of the discontent of patches of one race or religion in the dominions of another.

Son, son, I pray you fetch the ladies in: We have been talking here about a match, And left our noble friends in discontent.

And remembering what he had said, that his own trials had come to an end only when he awakened to the fact that he was, as he had put it, "less than half alive" there at Troyon's, and had simply "walked out into life," she was persuaded that the cure for her own discomfort and discontent would never be found in any other way.

The social discontent resulting from the war has reached an acute stage.

No more the Café des Exiles, no more the deadly tedium of daily service at the desk of the caisse, no more the shrewish tongue of Mama Thérèse, the odious oglings of Papa Dupont, the ceaseless cark of discontent.... Incredible!

She hath so much knowledge as to love it; and if she have it not at home, she will fetch it, for this sometimes in a pleasant discontent she dares chide her sex, though she use it never the worse.

So violent, he observed, was the discontent of the army, so imperious the conduct of the parliament, that it would be impossible to prevent a collision of interests, and the subsequent ruin of the good cause, unless there were established "some authority so full and so high" as to be able to check these exorbitances, and to restrain both the army and the parliament.

From his definite installation as hereditary prince discontent at his arbitrary methods of government amongst his ex-equals increased, and after several revolts he was forced eventually to grant a constitution in 1835.

Further, the attitude of Russia and Serbia throughout the whole winter remained so provocative and threatening that, although war was generally considered improbable, the Austrian army had to be kept on a war footing, which involved great expense and much popular discontent.

But! if there's a man here who doesn't yet know the difference between a soldierly discontent and unsoldierly grumbling I want him to GO!

Discontent at the polls.

" Colden, still following the advice of Willet, kept his men busy, knowing that idleness bred discontent and destroyed discipline.

This, according to the comparative value of assignats, is very trifling: but the people, who have so long been flattered with the ideas of partition and equality, and are now starving, consider it as a great deal, and much discontent is excited, which however evaporates, as usual, in the national talent for bon mots.

This is one proof, among a variety of others, that the despotism under which the French have groaned for the last three years, has much subdued the vivacity and impatience of the national character; for I know of no period in their history, when such a combination of personal suffering and political discontent, as exists at present, would not have produced some serious convulsion.

The pedants of the Convention are not unlearned in the history of the Praetorian Bands and the omnipotence of armies; and an offensive war is undertaken to give occupation to the soldiers, whose inactivity might produce reflection, or whose discontent might prove fatal to the new order of things.

The clubs, those hot-beds of the revolution, still exercised their pestilential influence over the populace of Paris, and stirred the rude masses incessantly to fresh paroxysms of discontent and disorder.

She travels, entertains, and poses for photographs and paintings in imported gowns, and there is no rumour of discontent or divorce.

Better be in your lover's life the unattained joy, than ruin his happiness by discontent.

The immediate occasion is probably some matter of internal politics, such as growing discontent and democratic sentiment among the people.

Though the frame of man must be Bound to earth, the soul is free, But that freedom oft doth bring Discontent and sorrowing.

Wealth, rank, and reputation, do not secure their possessors from the misery of discontent.

It was an alien feeling to him to be overcome by a yearning discontent.

The discontent was so great, and the alternative of slavery or ruin was so passionately offered to the Government at home, that the system of repartimientos remained untouched; for the Government felt that it must choose between the abandonment of the island and the destruction of those who alone, if judiciously protected, could make it profitable to retain it.

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