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.”

  Pia Tafdrup: Over the Water I Walk (V) - 1

• ““We shall have the serenest & happiest time while you are here, & nobody shall know care or fatigure.””

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• ““That conquers the serenest of them,” Mark Twain noted with evil satisfaction.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• “We were seated on the deck, women and all, in the serenest evening that can be imagined.”

  The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

• “And the royal table is a sight that even the royalest or serenest of highnesses might admire.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The

• “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.”

  Villette

• “And she announced, in the serenest, simplest tone, that, though she might never marry Mr. Rosier, she would never cease to think of him.”

  The Portrait of a Lady

• “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.”

  The Ambassadors

• “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.”

  The Ambassadors

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