Gradually, however, the talking became more infrequent, the cheerfulness passed into a kind of placidity; and without any particular crisis or sign of the end. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
The Teutonic placidity of this youth confounded me. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
The 'sandy beach' has been waked from its longaeval placidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
The reason for the doctor's placidity of manner was simply this. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Her face was flushed; indignation disturbed the placidity of her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
They chew the cud of custom with all the placidity of good-natured oxen. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
Don Rocco did not know, and in his humble placidity did not wish to know. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
Prudence looked up expectantly, sure of a break in their serene placidity. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
This love continued for four years with occasional interruptions in its placidity. From Wordnik.com. [A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes] Reference
'You shall never go with my consent,' said Agatha, roused from her usual placidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
One had been fond of him because of his sweetness and placidity, not for any brilliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
Maybe he should be glad that there was even this much fire left under the smug placidity of. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
The schoolmaster showed a surface placidity which was really no criterion of his inner feelings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
This planet which is sometimes seen in the tea-leaves, brings a message of peace or placidity. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
Suddenly the distant sound of firing disturbed the placidity of the scene about the "headquarters.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Franklin was a provincial American, and had, in other fields than electricity, troubled the British placidity. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Then when the pool had regained its old placidity, with the flecked sky pictured on it, he began his Gaelic story. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
He saw her now the same, outwardly, and the placidity of the oft-repeated type held her afar from his rugged place. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
He had procured for our conveyance a vehicle which was in all respects suitable to the placidity of his temper; and. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
But the other would not listen with that ear, and continued hammering away at his request with obstinate placidity. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
After a few moments Paul, now schooled to infinite placidity, inquired for the second time if he had found anything. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
"I wonder" -- Tate's face assumed its cheerful placidity -- "if his marrying of Jude and Joyce would hold in any court o 'law?". From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
One fact we have found out, which we fear will ripple the pure water placidity of some of our best friends; but the truth must be told. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
He wanted to give her a peace that would make permanent the placidity of her eyes such as had warmed his heart during those three days. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Chinese despot whose ingeniously cruel tortures we shudder to read of scarcely more than the placidity with which he sees them inflicted. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Outside, the waves of emotion might surge in vain, while within, she and Roger would settle down to the humdrum placidity of married life. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
The face is youthful, not more than thirty, and without a wrinkle; the cheeks are a little flushed, the prevailing expression is placidity. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
And Dot, who was always alarmed into placidity when she had provoked wrath, returned "Blessed are the pure in heart" to its own position on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
OUTWardly cool, he is the beloved son of a middle-management adman, reared in a lush suburb near St. Louis in the regimented placidity of post-World War II America. From Wordnik.com. [Riding The Wave] Reference
By persistent practice he had felled every circumstance to a dead level -- he would raze this new element, too, to the ground, and things would assume the old placidity. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
After death, the placidity and dignity of expression which continued to occupy the features, rendered them eminently beautiful, and the admiration of all who looked on them. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827] Reference
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