Use serene in a sentence
Sentences starting with serene
- Serene and agreeable recollections will soon bring you hither again; whereas there would be little joy in returning to a house where the remembrance of hours of weakness, the result of pleasure, would mingle with your future enjoyment. [10]
- Serene in the midst of all this hubbub lay a great grey battleship. [9]
- Serene and confident. [5]
Sentences ending with serene
- It was so young, so pathetic, so pale, yet so strangely beautiful, and her forehead was serene. [11]
- We argued, she yielded not; we supplicated, she was serene. [5]
- Of the last were the Seigneur and a woman once a Magdalene; but in a house beside a beautiful church, with a noble doorway, lived the Cure, M. Loisel, aged and serene. [11]
- In the mad turmoil, we were fearful, he was serene. [11]
- Never was night so still; never was a sky so deeply blue, nor stars so bright and serene. [11]
- But the gravity of Mr. Cooke's countenance remained serene. [9]
- If the wing of friendship should never moult a feather, the wing of relationship should never be clipped, but be always expanded and serene. [12]
- I glanced at Nick, but his face was serene. [9]
- His control of men was marvellous; his knowledge of finance was instinctive; his capacity for organization was rare, and he had health unbounded and serene. [11]
- I see few lights through the darkness of the present time, but amongst them the constancy of a kind heart attached to me is one of the most cheering and serene. [14]
Short sentences using serene
- Ida was pale but serene. [5]
- His Serene Highness? [2]
More example sentences with the word serene in them
- He might be wrong, but his words carried the evidence of his own serene, unshaken confidence that the spirit of all truth was with him. [6]
- Does He behold with smile serene The shows of that unending scene, Where sleepless, hopeless anguish lies, And, ever dying, never dies? [6]
- Forty eight guns with ammunition have been sent him from here, and his Serene Highness says he will defend Moscow to the last drop of blood and is even ready to fight in the streets. [2]
- I went out with a hoe; but the serene sweetness disarms me. [4]
- Presently the doors were thrown open, two halberdiers stepped inside, and an officer of the Court announced Admiral his Serene Highness Prince Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy. [11]
- All their faces were as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in which at least half of them would be left on the field. [2]
- One night when we lay in the bogs of the South Beaver Meadow, under a canopy of mosquitoes, the serene midnight was parted by a wild and humanlike cry from a neighboring mountain. [4]
- His adjutant Kaysarov was about to draw back the curtain of the window facing Kutuzov, but the latter moved his hand angrily and Kaysarov understood that his Serene Highness did not wish his face to be seen. [2]
- He was so ungainly, so pimply about the head, so scaly about the legs, yet so serene, so unspeakably satisfied! [5]
- Her sails hung unfilled, her streamers were drooping, she had neither side-wheel nor stern-wheel; still she moved on, stately, in serene triumph, as if with her own life. [6]
- The Grandson of twenty-three referred to himself five or six times as an "old traveler," and as many as three times (with a serene complacency which was maddening) as a "man of the world. [5]
- Compare its serene trusting strength, with poor ----'s vacillating dependence. [14]
- Kutuzov's adjutant whispered to Prince Andrew that this was the wife of the priest whose home it was, and that she intended to offer his Serene Highness bread and salt. [2]
- He even figured to himself with what surprise Guida would greet his announcement that she was henceforth Princesse Guida d'Avranche, and in due time would be her serene highness the Duchesse de Bercy. [11]
- They bring peace to a house, they diffuse serene content in a room full of mixed company, though they may say very little, and are apparently, unconscious of their own power. [5]
- Now and again there came the note of a night-bird, the croak of a frog from the shore; but the serene stillness and beauty of the primeval North was over all. [11]
- The contrast between them and the serene eye and undisturbed brow of the sage was a sight for all beholders. [6]
- He stopped in the village at the priest's house in front of which stood the commander in chief's carriage, and he sat down on the bench at the gate awaiting his Serene Highness, as everyone now called Kutuzov. [2]
- I remember well the sweet dignity of her aspect, her "regal beauty," as Mr. Phillips truly styles it, and the charm of her serene and noble presence, which made her the type of a perfect motherhood. [6]
- What showed upon the surface was a serene and lofty contentment and a dignity of carriage and gravity of deportment which compelled the admiration and likewise the wonder of the company. [5]
- She was not the serene, inexorable dame whom we have seen in pictures holding her scales above the jars of earth. [9]
- The jars of the restless life around it do not disturb the serene intelligence of the half-reasoning apparatus. [6]
- Ten days before the outbreak (May 10th) of the Mutiny, all was serene at Lucknow, the huge capital of Oudh, the kingdom which had recently been seized by the India Company. [5]
- Then he waylays the first spectre of a reason that goes flitting through the desert places of his mind, and is at once serene again and ready for conflict. [5]
- The worshippers of the deposed god, sullen, furious, and bitterly disabused, made their way out of the temple and looked up at the serene blue sky, the unclouded sunshine, for some symptoms of an avenging tempest; but in vain. [10]
- I never imagined that she was capable of a great passion, as was Irene Benson, who under a serene exterior was moved by tides of deep feeling, subject to moods, and full of aspirations and longings which she herself only dimly knew the meaning of. [4]
- Prince Andrew replied that he was not on his Serene Highness' staff but was himself a new arrival. [2]
- There at his table sat the dark, impenetrable operator, whose time was exactly apportioned, serene, saturnine, or genial, as the case might be, listening attentively, speaking deliberately, despatching the affair in hand without haste or the waste of a moment. [4]
- I walked the streets serene and happy. [5]
- His life at Stormfield--he had never seen the place until the day of his arrival, June 18, 1908--was a peaceful and serene old age. [5]
- Her beauty was still serene and unimpaired. [11]
- I travelled homeward somewhat lifted out of myself by this visit to him; with some feeling of spaciousness derived from Washington itself, with its dignified Presidential Mansion among the trees, its granite shaft drawing the eye upward, with its winged Capitol serene upon the hill. [9]
- There is something so innocent, so guileless, so complacent, so unearthly serene and self-satisfied about this peerless "hog-wash," that the man must be made of stone who can read it without a dulcet ecstasy creeping along his backbone and quivering in his marrow. [5]
- Only Malasha, Andrew's six-year-old granddaughter whom his Serene Highness had petted and to whom he had given a lump of sugar while drinking his tea, remained on the top of the brick oven in the larger room. [2]
- Presently he caught sight of a hawk sailing southward along the peaks of the white icebound mountains above, on which the sun shone with such sharp insistence, making sky and mountain of a piece in deep purity and serene stillness. [11]
- I knew how she feels, and that there is no other satisfied ambition, whether of king, conqueror, or poet, that ever reaches half-way to that serene far summit or yields half so divine a contentment. [5]
- But Cynthia sat serene, the eternal feminine of all the ages, and it is no wonder that Bob Worthington was baffled as he looked at her. [9]
- He treated his Serene Highness with a somewhat affected nonchalance intended to show that, as a highly trained military man, he left it to Russians to make an idol of this useless old man, but that he knew whom he was dealing with. [2]
- The night was serene and quiet, clear and cold, with glimmering stars and no moon, and the wide circle of the hills was drowsy with night and darkness. [11]
- She was perfectly serene and happy in her final rejection of Beaton; he had worn out not only her fancy, but her sympathy, too. [8]
- There was something serene and clear in his whole person; he was a man to bear the burthen of life's vicissitudes with dignity, while he had set himself the task of saving others from them so far as in him lay. [10]
- The sky was serene and bright, the air clear, perfumed with the fresh scent of newly fallen leaves, and grateful to every sense. [12]
- The evening we sailed away from Gibraltar, that hard-featured rock was swimming in a creamy mist so rich, so soft, so enchantingly vague and dreamy, that even the Oracle, that serene, that inspired, that overpowering humbug, scorned the dinner gong and tarried to worship! [5]
- When Jane Withersteen rose from that storm of wrath and prayer for help she was serene, calm, sure--a changed woman. [13]
- The clouds are rich and dark, the air serene, _So like the soul of me, what if't were me_? [6]
- For two hours rank and wealth, and obscurity and poverty clatter along side by side in the wild procession, and then go home serene, happy, covered with glory! [5]
- The Princess Elizabeth's quick eye saw by the serene blankness of the target's front that the shaft was overshot; so she tranquilly delivered a return volley of sounding Greek on Tom's behalf, and then straightway changed the talk to other matters. [5]
- Here was this poor hunter-fellow, with enough to eat and to drink, earning it every day by every day's labour, and, like Robinson Crusoe no doubt, living in a serene self- sufficiency and an elysian retirement. [11]
- So with the poets; for Wordsworth the air is always serene and clear, for Byron the sky is uncertain between storm and sunshine. [6]
- An adjutant told Pierre of his Serene Highness' wish, and Pierre went toward Kutuzov's bench. [2]
- When Kutuzov came out of the study and with lowered head was crossing the ballroom with his heavy waddling gait, he was arrested by someone's voice saying: "Your Serene Highness! [2]
- The poem is one of his noblest; he could not fold his robes about him with more of serene dignity than in these solemn lines. [6]
- Wolzogen, noticing "the old gentleman's" agitation, said with a smile: "I have not considered it right to conceal from your Serene Highness what I have seen. [2]
- It was one of the old-fashioned mansions on Washington Square, built at a time when people attached more importance to room and comfort than to outside display--a house that seemed to have traditions of hospitality and of serene family life. [4]
- Along the crest of the hills there slowly grew a line of light, and then the serene moon came up and on, persistent to give the earth love where it had had punishment. [11]
- The blue cloth of his coat set off the extreme paleness of a small but serene face and high round forehead. [11]
- Personally I have not known a Scientist who did not seem serene, contented, unharassed. [5]
- His brave eye never drooped, his serene confidence never wavered. [5]
- I said within myself that I would filter the great news through my lips calmly and be serene as a summer morning while I watched its effect in their faces. [5]
- I think so much of it is in herself, and her own serene, pure, trusting, religious nature. [14]
- Her features were more defined and had a calm, soft, and serene expression. [2]
- Presently, in the midst of Tracy's serene flow of talk, he felt a shudder which he knew was not his shudder, but exterior to his breast although immediately against it. [5]
- Out of the midst of this thunder and turmoil and tempest rose Dr. Lecher, serene and collected, and the providential length of his enabled his head to show out of it. [5]
- I do not mean laziness, which is always discontent; but that serene enjoyment, in which all the natural senses have easy play, and the unnatural ones have a holiday. [4]
- This thought calmed me, cheered me, and I sank down, limp and exhausted, upon the summit, but happy, so happy and serene within. [5]
- How beautifully serene Master Byles Gridley's face was growing! [6]
- Here is Aunt Maria, usually serene, on the verge of hysterics: she says he shouldn't stay in that damp cave another minute. [9]
- If you are making choice of a physician, be sure you get one, if possible, with a cheerful and serene countenance. [6]
- If time shall make it good; if time shall prove that the Science can heal the persecuted spirit of man and banish its troubles and keep it serene and sunny and content--why, then Mrs. Eddy will have a monument that will reach above the clouds. [5]
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis, at the age of forty-seven, as I recall him, was a tall, rather spare, dignified personage, of serene and grave aspect, but with a pleasant smile and kindly voice for the student with whom he came into personal relations. [6]
- My heart was like lead in my body when I went out from that dungeon; but she--she was serene, she was not troubled. [5]
- A short, swarthy lieutenant colonel of hussars with thick mustaches and whiskers rode up to the gate and, glancing at Prince Andrew, inquired whether his Serene Highness was putting up there and whether he would soon be back. [2]
- Half an hour later he appeared in the parlor, serene, cheery, clothed in sunshine, conducting Helen, with his arm about her waist, petting her, and saying gentle and playful things to her; and she also was her sunny and happy self again. [5]
- I do not know that it is true, as Tasso wrote, that this climate is so temperate and serene that one almost becomes immortal in it. [4]
- They showed serene in the shade of the trees. [11]
- I was serene in the midst of the scoldings that were heaped upon the Ottoman government for its affront offered to a pleasuring party of entirely respectable gentlemen and ladies I said, "We that have free souls, it touches us not. [5]
- He lived serene in his lofty world of philosophy, far above the mean interests that absorbed smaller men, and only came down to the ground at intervals to pass the hat for alms to pay his debts with, and insult the man that relieved him. [5]
- He, the commander in chief, a Serene Highness who everybody said possessed powers such as no man had ever had in Russia, to be placed in this position--made the laughingstock of the whole army! [2]
- And this is how it came about that the cautious old Squire Montague was drawn into this young fellow's speculation, and began to have his serene old age disturbed by anxieties and by the hope of a great stroke of luck. [5]
- It is amazing how his Serene Highness could so foresee the intentions of the French! [2]
- Mr. Braham preserved his serene confidence, but Laura's friends were dispirited. [5]
- Denisov, having given his name, announced that he had to communicate to his Serene Highness a matter of great importance for their country's welfare. [2]
- In a way his life was gone, and to build up a new life, serene and enduring, was not the work of a day. [4]
- One might end his days here in serene retrospection, and more cheaply than in other places of fewer attractions, for it is all Past and no Future. [4]
- At any rate, her face was never more serene than when she went to meeting with the two maiden ladies on the following day, Sunday, and heard the Rev. [6]
- She still occupied her easy chair, looking so serene, so reliant there was no opening for grief as yet, though all knew the separation was at hand. [14]
- His Serene Highness Heinrich of Saxe-Gunden fancied the task of breaking that ice, and he was an adept and an Apollo, but it broke his reputation instead. [11]
- At last we heard the front door shut behind them, and my father came upstairs, his usually serene face wearing a disturbed expression. [9]
- His Serene Highness has passed through Mozhaysk in order to join up with the troops moving toward him and has taken up a strong position where the enemy will not soon attack him. [2]
- So her life had gone on; to the outward world serene and happy, full of simplicity, charity, and good works. [11]
- He was evidently good, and sweet, and lovable, and guileless; and so it was exceedingly painful to see him stand there, as serene as a graven image, and deliver himself of answers which were veritably miraculous for stupidity and ignorance. [5]
- Her mind seems generally serene, and her sufferings hitherto are nothing like Emily's. [14]
- Half a block from this tabernacle stood a Roman Catholic Church, prosperous, brazen, serene, flaunting an eternal permanence amidst the chaos which had succeeded permanence! [9]
- She was deemed fortunate in her marriage, and in her apparent serene prosperity it was believed that she was happy. [4]
- He meant to fortify that knoll quite differently, but..." Boris shrugged his shoulders, "his Serene Highness would not have it, or someone persuaded him. [2]
- So we set forth, the sturdy wagon, the serviceable bays, with James Grayden their driver, the gentle lady, whose serene patience bore up through all delays and discomforts, the Chaplain, the Philanthropist, and myself, the teller of this story. [6]
- They are all fat and serene. [5]
- They ground the faces of the poor, played golf and went to church with serene minds, untroubled by criticism; they appropriated, quite freely, other men's money, and some of them other men's wives, and yet they were not haggard with remorse. [9]
- If he had ever undertaken the task, he might have disturbed that serene opinion of himself which marks him as a man who realized his own ideals. [4]
- I have never enjoyed a view which had such a serene and satisfying charm about it as this one gives. [5]
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