Adjective : a serene landscape; serene old age. ,serene weather. ,His Serene Highness. From Dictionary.com.
Her smile has a sereneness to it that I can only hope to one day share. From Wordnik.com. [A Promise] Reference
I have placed copies of "Pep" in their hands and watched courage, faith, cheer and sereneness come to them. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
As she stood below it Camilla was astounded by the quality of the workmanship, which conveyed delicate folds of drapery in the hard rock and imparted a divine sereneness to the Buddha's mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
He clambered the steep hill-side, and sinking exhausted beneath a smitten tree, enjoyed the picturesqueness of the scene; the meadows, the streams, the pasture-grounds, the dappled herds, the sereneness of the summer skies, cleft by the wing of the musical lark, in all their purity of blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
And as the mellow shadows of night stole over the scene -- as the heavens looked down in all their sereneness, and the stars shone out, and twinkled, and laughed, and danced upon the blue waters, and coquetted with the moonbeams -- for the moon was up, and shedding a halo of mystic light over the scene -- making night merry, nature seemed speaking to Maria in words of condolence. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
When he did look at her again, her face was calm almost to sereneness. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of Anderson Crow] Reference
Yet in the young days of June is sometimes seen the sereneness of autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
Christians, who have testified to this heavenly sereneness of thought, out of their own experience. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons for the New Life.] Reference
"They're worried about the sereneness of the area," Deters said of comments received by the township. From Wordnik.com. [The Altoona Mirror] Reference
But they sit before thee as my people, with all the shows of gravity, and sereneness, and composure of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapours among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
At the Seven Seas Aveda Spa at the Newport Beachside Hotel in Sunny Isles, guests can unwind in what looks like an undersea world of soothing sereneness. From Wordnik.com. [CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports] Reference
What was the life of a peasant more than that of any other animal of the land, that the concern of it should perturb the sereneness of your aristocratic being?. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
She was characterised by a strong sense of indignation; but her emotions of this sort were short-lived, and in no long time subsided into a dignified sereneness and equanimity. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
I really had no clue the next scene would be Gaeta's death, but I guess his calm sereneness should've been a hint: after four years, he doesn't have to worry anymore about death around the corner. From Wordnik.com. [Malnurtured Snay] Reference
In the land of the benign art thou dwelling wherein thou dost see the angelic sereneness, O all-wise God's prophet (mentioned by name), having been benign whilst shining with the grace; therefore we the faithful glorify thee joyously. From Wordnik.com. [The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints] Reference
The testimony of Moses is confirmed by the reports of many modern writers, who tell us that, notwithstanding its equal temperature and sereneness, that country has some indigenous maladies which are very malignant, such as ophthalmia, dysentery, smallpox, and the plague. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
So here in this spiritual deliverance, when a man passes from the agonies and distresses of a wounded spirit into a condition of joy and sereneness of mind, grounded upon a rational hope of God's reconcilement with him, he is so over come and ravished with delight, that he doubts al most of the reality of what he sees and feels, and even questions the truth of actual fruition. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
My master married his second wife for her estate; she was competently rich; she married him for considerations he performed not, (nocturnal society) so that they lived very uncomfortably; she was about seventy years of age, he sixty-six or more; yet never was any woman more jealous of a husband than she; insomuch, that whensoever he went into London, she was confident of his going to women; by those means my life was the more uncomfortable, it being very difficult to please two such opposite natures: however, as to the things of this world I had enough, and endured their discontents with much sereneness. From Wordnik.com. [William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681] Reference
The funereal plaster molds, solid, sereneness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Discerns sereneness in that brow. From Wordnik.com. [In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)] Reference
The sweet sereneness of the dead calmed her. From Wordnik.com. [In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls] Reference
I like the quiet, sereneness of a library. From Wordnik.com. [Lemonade Life] Reference
You will study simplicity, sentiment, sense, sereneness, sweetness, rather than envy, frills, feathers and foolishness. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
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