placid

• “_From that placid aspect and meek regard, _' on the ground that; '_meek regard_ conveys no new idea to _placid aspect_.”

  Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

• “The little girl studied the room, her expression placid.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Master

• “The lawyers would address the House at the Bar and lay down, in placid, conversational style, the facts of the case and the points of law on which he relied for judgment.”

  Daily Life in the British Parliament: The House of Lords | Edwardian Promenade

• “Her gaze was fixed on Svenson, her expression placid, amused.”

  The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

• “He sat calmly smoking a cigarette, his eyes upturned in placid and Oriental contemplation of the heavens.”

  Tish

• “Next morning between five and six I was safe seated on my luggage before the door of Maryland Street (Liverpool), smoking a cigar in placid silence till the silent home should awaken, which it somehow did unexpectedly before my cigar was done.”

  Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “All slept -- all England slept; and from my window, commanding a wide prospect of the star-illumined country, I saw the land stretched out in placid rest.”

  II.7

• “The city looked dark to the south, while numerous lights along the near shores, and the beautiful aspect of the banks reposing in placid night, the waters keenly reflecting the heavenly lights, gave to this beauteous river a dower of loveliness that might have characterized a retreat in Paradise.”

  II.2

• “The couple don't blame the driver for the loss of their little boy who they described as a placid yet cheeky kid.”

  Stuff.co.nz - Stuff

• “Andrew Schoultz throws this metaphor hard and down the middle with his assaultive explosions, tornados -- anything that intrudes transcendent energy into a world that by choice would remain placid.”

  The Huffington Post: ArtScene: Whatever It Looks Like Is Never Quite What You Think

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