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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Serene
 
  Serene and ephemeral as a little smiling sun.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Serene as a star in a bright mist.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  2
  Serene, like a deep, smooth, and still lake.
            —Buddha		  3
  Serene as night.
            —Lord Byron		  4
  Serene … like envoys from the skies.
            —Nathaniel Cotton		  5
Serene and calm, as when the Spring
The new-created world began.
            —John Dryden		  6
  Serene as the dawn.
            —Victor Hugo		  7
  More serene than Cordelia’s countenance.
            —John Keats		  8
  Serene as summer in Arcadian hills.
            —Charles L. Moore		  9
  Serene as a Quaker’s meeting.
            —James Ralph		  10
  Serene as a winter sunset.
            —Bernardin de Saint-Pierre		  11
  Serene, as in armour of faith.
            —Margaret E. Sangster		  12
  Serene and pleased a look as Patience ere put on.
            —James Thomson		  13
  Serene as light.
            —Isaac Watts		  14
  Serene as day.
            —William Wordsworth		  15
 
 
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