And, meanwhile, the men of her husband's generation clung to their old mansions, and were ornamental, certainly, and were, very certainly, profoundly self-satisfied; for they adhered to the customs of yesterday under the comfortable delusion that this was the only way to uphold yesterday's ideals.

Thus it was not possible for them to become too self-satisfied, to stand afar off and look down on their neighbors with Grecian scorn.

Isn't he a great, fat, self-satisfied creature, and doesn't he look as if he thought the world owed him a living, and he ought to get it?'

" "And no hard feelings, Monsieur Phinuit?" "There will be none"Monk's eyebrows were at once sardonic and self-satisfied; which speaks volumes for their versatility"at least, none on our sidewhen we are finished.

He cast a self-satisfied and rather supercilious glance in the direction of the Merrick party, which on this occasion included the Stantons and their aunt, but he made no attempt to approach the corner where they were seated.

As to heart trouble, Allerdyke knew that a few years previous to his death, James had taken out a life-policy with a first-rate office, and had been passed as a first-class life: he remembered, as he sat there thinking over these things, the self-satisfied grin with which James had come and told him that the examining doctor had declared him to be as sound as a bell.

His face was smooth and unwrinkled, as the faces of prosperous and self-satisfied persons sometimes are, even after sixty, which was the age Sir Timothy had attained.

Up there the great man stoodso his thoughts rancomplacent, self-satisfied, careless of the harm which his system wrought.

Little recks he of the clouds below, and knows not at all the little self-satisfied fools who pity him," and he thought this was the sum of all wisdom, and that with it would come immortality.

She was masculine, self-poised, and self-satisfied; she had taken excellent care of herself at a time when the independent woman had less encouragement than now.

He was as self-satisfied and complacent as if he had never planned evil deeds and tried to carry them out, while the benevolence with which he smiled upon the wedding party might have led one to suppose they had no more tried or trusted friend than he.

My interpretation of this self-satisfied serenity is that his guard duty did not deprive him of much sleep.

He came with his easy, tripping stride, self-satisfied, red-faced, tastefully dressed, an orchid in his buttonhole.

It was all very absurd and sentimental, she thought; and yet she was not without a curious heart-stirring of envy provoked by the self-satisfied complacency of the bride.

The funniest effect was the change from the look of self-satisfied complacency with which he accompanied the words: "The king has promised me" to that of towering rage when Alice innocently betrays her knowledge of the secret.

One can put up with a coarse man, if he minds his own business; but an impudent, self-satisfied fellow must be made to know his place.

Young girls, especially the impudent, self-satisfied kind that one met in America, had always filled Markham with a vague alarm.

Certainly, a more self-satisfied terrier never was than he who presently sped out, to air his new finery before an astonished neighbourhood.

But mere thought, self-satisfied, seeking no unity in God, owning no dependence, boasting of itself, counting it hardship that it cannot know all where it knows so much, this is the pride of thought, and this is not of the Father, but is of the world.

There was the man, stretched on his bed before him, haggard, unshaved, pale, and grizzly, with a fire in his eyes, but weakness in his voice,bold, defiant, self-satisfied, and yet not selfish.

Then the captain turned over in his mind that night's good work with the self-satisfied air of an industrious professional worker.

Moreover, he is constantly self-satisfied, and self-possessed.

The Swedish Customs Officer there, tired at the constant appearance of self-satisfied gentlemen with Red Passports, decided that Bohun was carrying medicine in his private bags.

Moreover, for the first time he detected in her a slight tone of the 'schoolmarm'didactic and self-satisfied, without knowledge.

There was something so startlingly frank, so hopelessly self-satisfied, so contagiously good-humored in the woman's perfect moral unconsciousness, that even if Mrs. Tucker had been less preoccupied her resentment would have abated.