Crossword-Solution: SANENESS 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

But this seriousness of hers was of a new kind, of the kind that bespeaks sobriety and saneness of soul.

And then, arguing that in calling himself an ass he had shown his saneness and impartiality, he felt justified in seeing her daily.

The reader is charmed at the saneness of this revived art and yet, here and there, he is surprised to discover, amid descriptions of nature that are full of humanity, disquieting flights towards the supernatural, distressing conjurations, veiled at first, of the most commonplace, the most vertiginous shuddering fits of fear, as old as the world and as eternal as the unknown.

Bram had placed in his way a temptation--to test him! There was saneness in that stratagem--and yet as Philip looked at the man now his last doubt was gone.

The man's optimism, his grateful personality, his saneness, too--for here is a dreamer neither idle nor morbid--are qualities no less enduring, or endearing, than his fame as "poet-naturalist." The American Farmer might have used Cotton's Retirement for an epigraph on his title-page:-- "Farewell, thou busy world, and may We never meet again, Here I can eat and sleep and pray.