Victor could not look that way for sorrow; but I looked with a chill trembling where it swayed in the serene night-heavens.
His tempest of joy cooled itself off into serene sky, and the refreshed flowers of joy opened the incense-cups of memory.
I am as glad as if it were I myself, that my hero was the very one who was distinguished from them all by a greater serene considerateness of free-thinking.
But he remained without the charmed Transcendental circle, serene and friendly and attentive.
Far away towards the south the river-bank on which his home lay was Sunnyside still, for the sky was cloudless and soft with serene sunshine.
But he was distinctively a preacher, and his serene and sweet genius never unbent into a frolicsome mood.
She was determined that in future she would lead that enclosed and so serene life which she admired in her eldest sister.
The noise of wheels died away, and here in the sound of the swift Greenrush Guy felt that hostility must surely be renounced at the balm of this September afternoon shedding serene sunlight.
That serene and nun-like conviction of tone made Pauline feel a little rebellious, and yet in its corroboration of her own uneasiness she could not laugh it aside.
All her life long she had been resolute and serene in action, deciding quickly, and carrying resolve into action without hesitation; but here, in the supreme crisis of her fate, she was irresolute and wrung by continual doubt.
Of the future he never dared to think; he took each day as it came; the best he hoped for was a mountaineer's death some hour or another, amidst the clear serene blue ice, the everlasting snows.
No skies so blue or so serene As then;--no leaves look half so green As clothed the playground tree!
The two faces beamed down on him sweet and serene and comforting as heaven.
Surrounded by eager disputants, officious advisers, abject flatterers, vigilant spies, malicious talebearers, he remained serene and inscrutable.
From the depths of despair, the penitent passed to a state of serene felicity.
In truth, your Serene Highness, that were hard to say, inasmuch as the messenger refuses to inform us.
I beg yourSerene Highness ten thousand most humble pardons, but, in truth, a more comical knave did I never see.
Nevertheless, he bade me deliver to your Serene Highness his dutiful affection, saying that he would soon have the honour of bending his knee unto your Serene Highness.
His Serene Highness has commenced his progress towards the hall.
It is well for me that all are not of the same opinion as your Serene Highness," said the young Jagd Junker, somewhat nettled; for he prided himself on his repartees.
I have the honour, then, of addressing your Serene Highness.
It must have been his bugle, for the regulations of this forest are so strict that no one dare sound a blast but his Serene Highness.
That may certainly account for your ignorance," said the huntsman; "but no one who lives in this land can be unacquainted with his Serene Highness the Prince of Little Lilliput, my illustrious master.
I am afraid hisSerene Highness must be in distress.
A page heralded the Prince Maximilian, and then came the Serene father; the Jagd Junker, and four or five other gentlemen of the court, formed the suite.
I have the honour," continued the huntsman, "of being Jagd Junker, or Gentilhomme de la Chasse to his Serene Highness.
I do not know that it is true, as Tasso wrote, that this climate is so temperate and serene that one almost becomes immortal in it.
Such is the nature of the serene and blissful existence of the divinities, a life where evil has no place.
In fact it is humidity which forms clouds in the air; the dryness of the atmosphere produces a dry and serene clearness.
Through all his agony he uttered no word of complaint, and his countenance preserved its usual serene and tranquil expression.
Yet she lay there, in the coffin, absolutely serene and calm.
All those reflected the serene pink of the cloud, a blue pigeon picked his way delicately among them.
So we who had expected to be haled to retribution, as criminals of the deepest dye, floated homeward in the serene light of Mrs. Handsomebody's approval.
Its serene radiance fell on his solemn blue-eyed face, surrounded by red whiskers.
In spite of the sereneand placid look of the old houses, one who has always known them cannot help thinking of the sorrows of these farms and their almost undiverted toil.
Cruchard is very busy, but serene and very calm, which surprises everybody.
Turn from this folly and all will be serene and happy soon.
Mara's greeting was outwardly the same; nevertheless, Clancy's words haunted her, and her old serene unconsciousness was gone.
These were all dire thoughts, and were brought home to the consciousness the more vividly because the awful phenomena continued in the serene light of day.
In darkness and in storm he found delight: Nor less, than when on ocean wave serene The southern Sun diffus'd his dazzling shene.
I defy even the most rigid Puritans to prove that a satisfactory moral condition can go on within an exterior which exhibits no signs of a live, able, and serene existence.
Must our future have no serene and simple quality, not even a spice of the influence of Nature, with her air, her trees, her fields, and wide skies?
But, beneath the serene complacence of the forest, they yielded to prolonged, ringing lovers' gaiety, full of all the tenderness now born.
Sometimes he disappeared in the midst of serene calmness, unflecked by a single cloud, sinking gradually beneath a golden sea.
And first he entered into joy with the five glad Mysteries, steeped in the serene calm of dawn.
Such a tempest, dreadful anywhere, would be most appalling of all in the serene atmosphere of Egypt, to unaccustomed spectators, and minds troubled by their guilt.
And yet the change marks not a lower conception of deity, but an advance, just as the quiet and serene communion of a saint with God is loftier than the most agitating experience of the convert.
We turn our eyes, therefore, as boldly and as quickly as may be, from these serene fields and skies of mediaeval art, to the most characteristic examples of modern landscape.
