By-and-by, as they worked undisturbed, serenity returned.

If she was a bit more subdued, a trifle less high-spirited than was her habit, if she refused positively to sit with her back to any door or to retire for the night until her quarters had been examined, if (as Lanyard suspected) she was never unarmed for a moment, day or night, she permitted no signs of mental strain to mar the serenity of her countenance or betray the studied graciousness of her gestures.

By this method, he preserved a constant freedom and serenity of spirits, always equally proper for study; for his soul had no pretences to complain of being overwhelmed with matter.

When they did think of their children, it was of George; the painful image of Francis being seldom admitted to disturb their serenity.

Indeed I don't think I had ever felt anything so nearly approaching complete serenity since my escape from Dartmoor.

or is it women's loves and patriots' struggles, and sages' pious thoughts, affections, noble aspirations, Bethanies, the serenities of virtuous old age, the harmonies of unpolluted homes, the existence of art, of truth, of love; the hopes which last when sun and stars decay?

Addison makes virtue amiable; Johnson represents it as an awful duty: Addison insinuates himself with an air of modesty; Johnson commands like a dictator; but a dictator in his splendid robes, not labouring at the plough: Addison is the Jupiter of Virgil, with placid serenity talking to Venus, "Vultu, quo coelum tempestatesque serenat.

Serenity no longer sat upon her brow, nor smiles played upon her lips.

We heard along the woods, at the bottom of the valleys, and on the summits of the rocks, the weak cry and the soft murmurs of the birds, exulting in the brightness of the night, and the serenity of the atmosphere.

Eight days after the death of her son, Margaret saw her last hour approach with that serenity which virtue only can feel.

The child had clear, calm blue eyes like Draxy's, and an expression of serenity and radiant joy on his tiny face, which made the people wonder.

There was a fathomless serenity in her face which seemed to me super-human.

Her beautiful serenity and entire freedom from suffering blinded Aunt Ann's eyes to the fact that she was dying.

The ineffable serenity, the holy peace, made it look like the face of one who had been transfigured, translated; who had not known and who never could know any death.

He was serenity itself as John Wingfield, Sr. burst out of the library, his face hard-set.

The moonlight on his face, which had lost its tan, gave him an aspect of subdued and patient serenity in keeping with the surroundings.

The bland serenity of Mr. Campbell's face was disturbed by thin, spidery lines of perplexity, and the guileless blue eyes were vacant as he stared at the top of his desk.

Mirth is like a Flash of Lightning, that breaks thro a Gloom of Clouds, and glitters for a Moment; Chearfulness keeps up a kind of Day-light in the Mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual Serenity.

Every one ought to fence against the Temper of his Climate or Constitution, and frequently to indulge in himself those Considerations which may give him a Serenity of Mind, and enable him to bear up chearfully against those little Evils and Misfortunes which are common to humane Nature, and which by a right Improvement of them will produce a Satiety of Joy, and an uninterrupted Happiness.

And was it the inspiring remembrance of his master's calm bearing under these afflictions which heartened him to maintain a noble serenity under even greater provocation? "April 21, 1812.

None of these idle or frivolous sources of discontent, that make such havoc with the peace of human life, ever discompose his features or alter the serenity of his pulse.

Luring him onward through the woods with happy looks and smiles, the serenity which she had at first assumed, stole into her breast in earnest.

Mankind would have little to envy to future ages, if they had all enjoyed a serenity as perfect as mine has been for the latter half of my existence.

It is not only that an amplifying science may give mankind happier bodies and far more active and eventful lives, but that psychology and educational and social science, reinforcing literature and working through literature and art, may dare to establish serenities in his soul.

He matched his village, and one may figure them best together as they used to be, on the sunset evening when Mrs. Skinneryou will remember her flight!brought the Food with her all unsuspected into these rustic serenities.