"Placidity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such behaviour! Composure with a witness! to look on, while repeated attentions were offering to another woman, before her face, and not resent it.—That is a degree of placidity, which I can neither ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... his hands on his stomach with exemplary resignation. I admired the placidity of his impudence. Then ...
— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad
... rested with tolerant placidity upon the face of this man whom he must consider, according to his tenets, as a creature antagonistic to the true gods, and said, in his soft, modulated voice: "Thou art young, Sahib, and full of the life force which is essential to the things ...
— Caste • W. A. Fraser
... though I found the market at the foot of the statue given over, not to flowers, as the name of the place might imply, but to such homely fruits of the earth as potatoes, carrots, cabbages, and, above all, onions. There was a placidity in the simple scene that pleased me: I liked the quiet gossiping of the old market-women over their baskets of vegetables; the confidential fashion in which a gentle crone came to my elbow and ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells
... a distinct sound of the pushing of bolts and bars, Marguerite thought that she was the prey of hallucinations. The Abbe Foucquet was sitting in the remote and darkest corner of the room, quietly telling his beads. His serene philosophy and gentle placidity could in no way be disturbed by the opening of shutting of a door, or by the bearer of good ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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