Serenest

I find something – like language – immaterial, but earthly, terrestrial, something circular, something that traverses both poles to return into itself and there – in the serenest of ways – even intersecting the tropics - I find ... a meridian. ❋ David McDuff (2009)

“That conquers the serenest of them,” Mark Twain noted with evil satisfaction. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Folded his hands after his stormy life & slept in serenest repose under the peaceful sighing of the summer wind among the grasses over his grave. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

“We shall have the serenest & happiest time while you are here, & nobody shall know care or fatigure.” ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

We were seated on the deck, women and all, in the serenest evening that can be imagined. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And the royal table is a sight that even the royalest or serenest of highnesses might admire. ❋ Giles Waterfield (2004)

I was far from the serenest; I was more than agitated enough to reflect that, grimly deprived of one alternative or one substitute for “telling,” I must address myself tooth and nail to another. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For a little while, the blooming semblance of beauty may flourish round weakness; but it cannot bear a blast: it soon fades, even in serenest sunshine. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And she announced, in the serenest, simplest tone, that, though she might never marry Mr. Rosier, she would never cease to think of him. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He arrives (arrives at Chester) as for the dreadful purpose of giving his creator “no end” to tell about him — before which rigorous mission the serenest of creators might well have quailed. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“Ah, noble ship,” the angel seemed to say, “beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy helm; for lo! the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling off — serenest azure is at hand.” ❋ Unknown (2002)

The mystery of the raps distracted her, puzzled her, frightened her; whereas Austin was not frightened at all -- on the contrary, he accepted the whole thing with the serenest cheerfulness and _sang-froid_, finding it apparently quite natural that these unseen agencies, coming from nobody knew where, should take him under their protection and make friends with him. ❋ Frederic H. Balfour (N/A)

It was just the gentlest, calmest, serenest face and form in the world, -- with the same look of pure sweetness he had noticed on her first entrance, -- with a peculiar surprised look in her wide-open eyes, that he had seen but in one human face. ❋ Various (N/A)

He nearly closed his own, and hers bent again in serenest contemplation. ❋ Various (N/A)