Adjective : placid waters.    From Dictionary.com. 

Beneath the placidness Rostnikov sensed a seething anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cold Red Sunrise]

Why was I not by to sooth my Friend to placidness -- but I unhappily had contributed to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 February 1779] Reference

"To each other," he replied, and I could see he was enjoying Mrs. Bain's placidness and my apprehension of trouble ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference

No tongue can express, no mind can reach, the heavenly placidness and soul-satisfying delight which are intimated in these words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

Would you expect to enjoy yourself with your usual placidness, and not to be ruffled, in an hurricane which every moment threatens to blow your house down?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Now anger is by nature at the farthest distance imaginable from complacency, and spleenishness from placidness, and animosity and turbulence from humanity and kindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Wanting to fill my eyes and thoughts with beauty as I began chemotherapy, I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interview with Susan Vreeland] Reference

Whenever he came in my sight, the thought of this gave me an indignation that made his presence disgustful to me; and the more, as I fancied I beheld in his face a triumph which reproached my weakness on that account; although perhaps it was only the same vivacity and placidness that generally sit upon his features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

She went on in placidness from hour to hour, ruffled occasionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

"Oh, no," said Mrs. Fisher -- with an odd placidness, Scrap thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted April] Reference

"Oh no," said Mrs. Fisher – with an odd placidness, Scrap thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted April] Reference

A face it was that always had a rare union of fineness and placidness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

Walter Smith has warned against mistaking Weir's placidness for insouciance and the.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The conversation of these innocent and guileless lovers was, as it were, in unison with the placidness of the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference

In her whole attitude there is a sort of gravity and placidness, something of the half-asleep air of a person ruminating.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings] Reference

A month, at least, is necessary, to bring my features to such a placidness with him, as to allow him to smile in my face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)] Reference

M. de Talleyrand's hopes were alive likewise, though he did not, like her, lose his composure and comic placidness of manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney] Reference

Its sole role seems to be to keep the masses in a state of bovine-like placidness so that they don't question what the Government are doing to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

To expand the human face to its full perfection, it seems necessary that the mind should co-operate by placidness of content, or consciousness of superiority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference

Remaining with us a second night, something, possibly the placidness of the cattle, mellowed the old man and he grew amiable with the outfit, and myself in particular.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlet] Reference

He breathed the placidness of a respectable old bachelor whose only love is for good living and who appreciates the digestive sleepiness of the boaconstrictor as the greatest of happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)] Reference

Rainey thought of her as one does of a pool that one plumbs with a stone, thinking to find it fairly shallow, only to discover it a gulf with unknown depth and currents, capable of smiling placidness or sudden storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man to His Mate] Reference

Clear placidness dwelt on the brow, that looked as if nothing ever ruffled it; the eye was full of business and command; and the mouth, -- its corners told of a fountain of sweetness somewhere in the region of the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet, Volume I] Reference

Clear placidness dwelt on the brow, that looked as if nothing ever ruffled it; the eye was full of business and command; and the mouth, – its corners told of a fountain of sweetness somewhere in the region of the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet] Reference

The waves of air were but just at rest, when Mrs. Derrick opened the door and came in; her black dress and white cap setting off a face and demeanour which, with all their wonted sweet placidness, and amid all the tender influences of the day, kept too their wonted energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference

The placidness of the huge lake is in strange contrast to the noisy stream which so excitedly hastens to meet it, and, as if awed by its dignity, as it comes nearer and nearer the mountain stream, sinks its voice, until in a subdued sigh it falls into the breast of the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway] Reference

River sluggishly followed the tortuous windings of its treeless banks with a placidness that was awful in its very silence; and whoso traced the wanderings of that stream with no companion but his own thoughts, realized in all its intensity the depth of solitude from which Robinson Crusoe suffered on his lonely island.    From Wordnik.com.  [The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway] Reference

His personal appearance has been sketched in a few lines by Hutchinson: -- "He was of a most reverend aspect; his face thin and pale; but there was a divine placidness which inspired veneration, and expressed the most benevolent mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

"There is but little more to tell," said the old woman, who with stolid placidness had resumed her former occupation, and once more rubbed the white shoulders with the sweet-smelling unguent; "nor could I tell thee how it all happened.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Unto Caesar"] Reference

Borne with meek placidness, devoid of vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of Geneva] Reference

Mar Pacifico ") because of its relative placidness compared to the stormy Atlantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

A rare union of fineness and placidness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy, Volume I] Reference