serenity

• Each time that an obstacle was surmounted and the plow resumed its even, solemn progress, the laborer, whose pretended violence was but a trial of his strength, and an outlet for his energy, instantly regained that serenity which is the right of simple souls, and looked with fatherly pleasure toward his child, who turned to smile back at him. —  La mare au diable. English
• Bitter tears trembled again on my cheeks--all my serenity was gone With a heavy heart I moved forwards, and sought the society of man no longer. —  Peter Schlemihl
• This lady, alone in one of the smaller receptacles of the grand tier and already the aim of fifty tentative glasses, which she sustained with admirable serenity--this single exquisite figure, placed in the quarter furthest removed from my stall, was a person, I immediately felt, to cause one's curiosity to linger. —  Embarrassments
• An element of trouble had begun to come into the life that had been so full of serenity, as well as of regular and strenuous work. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• Miss Waddington looked as though there were nothing in the proposition to ruffle her serenity, and said that she would. —  The Bertrams

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