For Sereno Hornblower is the confidential attorney of most of our "best families.
Then, I confess, an awed and reverent feeling crept over me, also, for the card bore the name of Sereno Hornblower.
El Sereno went down on one knee as it passed, and bared and bowed his head.
Although accompanied by modulations capable of making a dog weep, the sacramental cry of the sereno absolutely produced no impression on mine host's customers.
Suddenly the voice of a sereno singing in the distance furnished him with the pretext he vainly sought, by shouting as he passed the locanda,-- "Ave Maria purisima.
As I passed the great square of the new barracks, a sereno (so the night watchmen were called) was crying the hour.
And then, suddenly, I was watching the green candle sputter, and out of the stillness came a cry--the sereno calling the hour of the night.
The sereno of the calle San Bernardo showed great liking for the immediate neighborhood of our casa de huespedes--after I had been admitted.
Theoretically the sereno is supposed to keep order--or at least orderly.
The sereno is a public officer, and there is one in every street, and each of them has a whistle.
At whatever hour of the night you awake you hear the voice of the sereno announcing the time, or if it is fine weather, or if it is raining or going to rain.
The sereno who is in the street sounds his whistle, the serenos of the neighboring streets whistle, and in a few moments all the serenos in the district run to your assistance.
Don Pablo said, with an air of indifference; "if a sereno were to pass he might accuse us of having killed the man.
At the same instant the melancholy voice of the sereno could be heard chanting-- "Ave Maria purisima!
He alone in America (since Theo Dene was gone, and Kate merely suspected) knew that Mrs. May was the Princess di Sereno, who had never been a wife to Paolo di Serenoexcept in name.
Perhaps Princess di Sereno was not quite forgotten in Italy, after all.
There, the young Princess di Sereno could have made or marred her socially.
She had little fear that ghosts of the past would come to haunt her in her new home, for though the Prince di Sereno had once cared for her in his way, she had struck at his pride and made him hate her in the end.
Angela interrupted him to reply that nothing the Prince di Sereno could do had power to shock her, for they had never been really in each other's lives, and had now passed out of one another's orbits forever.
For the first time since leaving Rome "on a long visit to relatives in America" (according to newspaper paragraphs), the Princess di Serenodid not hug her loneliness and her secret.
In Rome, in Paris, in London, Princess di Sereno had been obliged sometimes to go to houses of women whom she disliked or distrusted, and to have them in hers.
Princess diSereno wondered why she had ever been nice to Theo in Rome.
If she were on the passenger-list as the Princess di Sereno she would be more stared at and bothered than that poor, fat Duchess of Dorsetshire, who was too near-sighted to recognize her at a distance, thank goodness.
When Angela di Sereno had been able to afford everything, she had longed for nothing.
She did not want him to know that she was the Princess di Sereno until, for her own reasons and in her own time, she should choose to tell him the story of her life.
Fortunately, the sereno receives a second missive from the anonymous correspondent, containing the assurance that there is still hope for immediate and radical disenchantment if Mateo will only follow the writer's advice.
The sereno is next enjoined to examine the lining of his bran-new panama, which he has lately purchased to wear only on festive occasions.
At this moment a sereno offered him the pretext which he was awaiting by shouting outside-- "Ave Maria purisima las diez han dado y llueve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sereno" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
