of Contend
Source: Webster's dictionary[I was] happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.... rendering the God-spirit in the mountains. Marsden Hartley
But Alexander (I of Macedon), proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek; so he contended in the furlong race and ran a dead heat for first place. Herodotus
My paintings [c. 1907] were aglow with colors and so my soul was contended with them. Alexej von Jawlensky
Go bang the window and see what happens -- just test it. See that? Trudeau had the office bulletproofed. I always contended that the reason he did it was because the American embassy is right outside. They probably wanted to shoot him. Brian Mulroney
Many conservative writers have contended that the tendency to equality in modern social movements is the expression of envy. In this way they seek to discredit this trend, attributing it to collectively harmful impulses. John Rawls
In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans. William H. Wharton