All 9 Uses
serene
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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- There it was, as sure a fact and as substantial a fact as any serene volcano, standing innocent with its smokeless summit in the blue sky and giving no sign of the rising hell in its bowels.†
Chpt 10serene = calm and untroubled
- Only a little while back, when I was riding and suffering, what a heaven this peace, this rest, this sweet serenity in this secluded shady nook by this purling stream would have seemed, where I could keep perfectly comfortable all the time by pouring a dipper of water into my armor now and then; yet already I was getting dissatisfied; partly because I could not light my pipe—for, although I had long ago started a match factory, I had forgotten to bring matches with me—and partly because we had nothing to eat.†
Chpt 13serenity = untroubled calm
- What a silky smooth hellion she was; and so composed and serene, when the cords all down my legs were hurting in sympathy with that man's pain.†
Chpt 17 *serene = calm and untroubled
- To kill the page was no crime—it was her right; and upon her right she stood, serenely and unconscious of offense.†
Chpt 18serenely = in a manner that is calm and untroubled
- 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.†
Chpt 26serene = calm and untroubled
- Here was heroism at its last and loftiest possibility, its utmost summit; this was challenging death in the open field unarmed, with all the odds against the challenger, no reward set upon the contest, and no admiring world in silks and cloth of gold to gaze and applaud; and yet the king's bearing was as serenely brave as it had always been in those cheaper contests where knight meets knight in equal fight and clothed in protecting steel.†
Chpt 29serenely = in a manner that is calm and untroubled
- Then he read off this bill, while those three amazed men listened, and serene waves of satisfaction rolled over my soul and alternate waves of terror and admiration surged over Marco's: 2 pounds salt ......200 8 dozen pints beer, in the wood ......800 3 bushels wheat ......2,700 2 pounds fish ......100 3 hens ......400 1 goose ......400 3 dozen eggs ......150 1 roast of beef ......450 1 roast of mutton ......400 1 ham ......800 1 sucking pig ......500 2 crockery dinner sets ......6,000 2 men's suits and underwear ......2,800 1 stuff and 1 linsey-woolsey gown and underwear ......1,600 8 wooden goblets ......800 Various table furniture ......10,000 1 deal table ......3,000 8 stools ......4,000†
Chpt 32serene = calm and untroubled
- his humble subjects hunger and thirst for words of wisdom out of the mouth of their master his Serene and Sacred Raggedness!†
Chpt 38
- Well, there couldn't be a more contented or comfortable sight than Sir Launcelot in his noble armor sitting in gracious serenity at the end of a yard of snowy church-warden.†
Chpt 40serenity = untroubled calm
Definitions:
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(1)
(serene) calm and untroubled
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)