All 10 Uses of
serene
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- The child, playing with another of the same age, chasing it with a toy pistol, had looked at her with such an open, serene, trusting expression as she passed by!†
Story 1.10
- Bowman averted his head and saw the woman looking serenely back at the mule, with only satisfaction in her face.†
Story 1.15 *
- Then all quietly he lays his finger on a key with the promise and serenity of a sibyl touching the book.†
Story 1.16
- But before them the white heron rested in the grasses with the evening all around it, lighter and more serene than the evening, flight closed in its body, the circuit of its beauty closed, a bird seen and a bird still, its motion calm as if it were offered: Take my flight… .†
Story 2.20
- And then they began to tell over Miss Sabina's story, their voices serene and alike: how she looked, the legend of her beauty when she was young, the house where she was born and what happened in it, and how she came out when she was old, and her triumphal way, and the pitiful end when she toppled to her death in a dusty place where she was a stranger, that she had despised and deplored.†
Story 2.21
- High above everything, the wheel of fields, house, and cabins, and the deep road surrounding like a moat to keep them in, was the turning sky, blue with long, far-flung white mare's-tail clouds, serene and still as high flames.†
Story 2.24
- He gazed serenely about the walls, pausing for a moment first, as though something had happened to them not that very hour but a long time ago.†
Story 3.27
- Cassie had chosen the one thin, gold-rimmed coffee cup for herself, and balanced it serenely.†
Story 3.32
- It was serene, imperturbable, gratuitous: it was of course the look of "good country people" at such times.†
Story 4.38
- Il pellegrino, Signore Scampo?" murmured Nonna serenely.†
Story 4.39
Definition:
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(serene) calm and untroubled