There was a restlessness and varying of color, in the ordinarily placid Clara, which prevented a display of her usual manner; while Jane walked gracefully, and with a tincture of her mother's manner, by her side.

Hushed in the seemingly placid repose lay the great city, while hundreds of its inhabitants were groaning in agony, or breathing their last sigh.

He is a man of singularly placid demeanour, but he has been seriously ill, so possibly his nerves are shakenat any rate I never saw him so much moved.

," said Anthea, giving her pen a vicious bite, "I don't believe he ever was; he is always sohatefully placid, and deliberate!"

The ocean is uniformly placid during the summer months.

Fogerty was invariably placid and inscrutable, so no explanation could be gleaned from his demeanor.

But we were wonderfully placid about it all.

Mrs. Cameron was a stolid, corpulent lady, with a countenance perpetually placid and an habitual aversion to displaying intellect.