He stopped in the village at the priest's house in front of which stood the commander in chief's carriage, and he sat down on the bench at the gate awaiting his
Serene Highness, as everyone now called Kutuzov.
When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear Pacific with uncounted thanks, for now the long supplication of my youth was answered; that
serene ocean rolled eastwards from me a thousand leagues of blue.
Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our
serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said
serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said
serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said
serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
A sad eclipse of the
serene soul, a sharp struggle of the young life with death, but both were mercifully brief, and then the natural rebellion over, the old peace returned more beautiful than ever.
The regions ruled by the north-east and south-east Trade Winds are
serene. In a southern-going ship, bound out for a long voyage, the passage through their dominions is characterized by a relaxation of strain and vigilance on the part of the seamen.
For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such
serene household joy then.
What puzzled and distracted him above everything was that the majority of men of his age and circle had, like him, exchanged their old beliefs for the same new convictions, and yet saw nothing to lament in this, and were perfectly satisfied and
serene. So that, apart from the principal question, Levin was tortured by other questions too.
She was equally untrammelled in her actions; and as her tactfulness proceeded from genuine humanity, her bodily vigour remained remarkable and her superiority was
serene and cordial, three generations had admired her infinitely, and the last she was likely to see had pronounced her a wonderful woman.
Thus the wandering tribes of the prairies, who often behold clouds gathering round the summits of these hills, and lightning flashing, and thunder pealing from them, when all the neighboring plains are
serene and sunny, consider them the abode of the genii or thunder-spirits who fabricate storms and tempests.
They turned and looked at the
serene front with its gold-rimmed windows, to him the shrine of so much adoration.
his hum- ble subjects hunger and thirst for words of wisdom out of the mouth of their master his
Serene and Sacred Raggedness!"
(a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and
serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling, or pride.