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Definition
calm and untroubled
- April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.Chapter 9 (11% in)
- Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager: something which chastened the pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was struck with wonder.Chapter 8 (67% in)
- This done, I lingered yet a little longer: the flowers smelt so sweet as the dew fell; it was such a pleasant evening, so serene, so warm; the still glowing west promised so fairly another fine day on the morrow; the moon rose with such majesty in the grave east.Chapter 9 (52% in)
- ...it; but when my reflections were concluded, and I looked up and found that the afternoon was gone, and evening far advanced, another discovery dawned on me, namely, that in the interval I had undergone a transforming process; that my mind had put off all it had borrowed of Miss Temple — or rather that she had taken with her the serene atmosphere I had been breathing in her vicinity — and that now I was left in my natural element, and beginning to feel the stirring of old emotions.Chapter 10 (18% in)
- It was a fine autumn morning; the early sun shone serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields; advancing on to the lawn, I looked up and surveyed the front of the mansion.Chapter 11 (41% in)
- It was moonlight and gaslight besides, and very still and serene.Chapter 15 (7% in)
- It had been a mild, serene spring day — one of those days which, towards the end of March or the beginning of April, rise shining over the earth as heralds of summer.Chapter 17 (20% in)
- "The night is serene, sir; and so am I." "And you will not dream of separation and sorrow to-night; but of happy love and blissful union."Chapter 25 (97% in)
- Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.Chapter 28 (13% in)
- Zealous in his ministerial labours, blameless in his life and habits, he yet did not appear to enjoy that mental serenity, that inward content, which should be the reward of every sincere Christian and practical philanthropist.Chapter 30 (24% in)
- To live amidst general regard, though it be but the regard of working people, is like "sitting in sunshine, calm and sweet;" serene inward feelings bud and bloom under the ray.Chapter 32 (9% in)
- His sisters looked at each other and at me; we all three looked at him: he was serene as glass.Chapter 34 (30% in)
- He does not care for that: when my time came to die, he would resign me, in all serenity and sanctity, to the God who gave me.Chapter 34 (72% in)
There are no more uses of "serene" in Jane Eyre.
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