Surrounded by attentive minions, who had full 'confidence in his dispositions' he reposed, with the urbaneplacidity of a corpulent idol, in the curve of his great horseshoe desk.
He retained his singular placidity of mind and manner; he was rarely in fault; but he made only a very partial progress in his studies, and remained much of a stranger in the family.
The weather, as on the preceding day, was fine, and the river exhibited the same placidityof surface.
The magnificent monotony of its stupendous placidity was not broken except by a few hours of ruffled rollers that tell of agitations that, if gigantic, are remote.
This man--the man inside the cab-- cast off his stiff placidity and behaved like an animal.
Or only, if I may say so, the wind of their flight disturbing the solemnplacidity of the Fynes' domestic atmosphere.
He, as ever inexpressive to the point of terrifying her sometimes by the contrast of his placidity and his words, turned away from her a pair of faded eyes.
Placidity of mind favors the flow of nerve impulses for reconstructive purposes, while over-reaction to pain inhibits the natural processes of repair.
He is known for his placidityand lack of over-anxiety.
Brokers, speculators, actors, sometimes public speakers, on whom appearances in public in spite of apparent placidity are often a severe strain, may have to be guided into quieter paths of life.
His placidity was so genuine that he was not unduly, fretting himself over the absence of Heyst, or the mysterious manners Schomberg had treated him to.
He looked with suspicion at Davidson, and even glanced at his wife; but he was baffled by the naturalplacidity of the one and the acquired habit of immobility in the other.
Facing him, Ricardo blinked slowly for a time, then closed his eyes altogether, with the placidity of the domestic cat dozing on the hearth-rug.
An invincible placidity of expression helped Davidson wonderfully at the moment, and the other, of course, could have no grounds for the slightest suspicion of any sort of understanding between his wife and this customer.
This would be the case if only because the remarkable strain of her father's placidity might be thought of as likely to claim some larger part of his attention.
He gazed now at the placidity of Garrick Street with the intensity of some challenging "Stand and Deliver!
You would not think to look at her flat broad placidity that she was a creature of excitement, and it might be that her excitement was rather superficial.
The very serenity and placidity which Quaker worship and industry produce in the true Quaker have resulted in the emotional ruin of some, and in the subconscious volcanic state in others.
Strange to say, the immigrants, Irish and American, have in this conformed to the better type; so that gentle manners, placidity of character and restraint of emotion may be said to prevail among them.
To-morrow Job was to hear what Mrs. Northover had to say concerning his proposal, and, meantime, the pending decision neither unsettled him nor interfered with his usual placidity and enterprise.
It was part of Job's genius never to be put about, or driven from placidity by anything.
The mingling of the two scenes, and the calm placidity which both tended to inspire, did not fail to find its way to my heart, and to soothe and quiet the anguish which had not yet left it.
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.
Brown's face expressed such placidity that the master asked him to stand and give out the answer, and he gave it gladly enough--999.
I was most impressed with the exceeding mildness and placidity of their demeanor; as if they had time enough, plenty to eat, and nothing to fear.
The placidity with which he showed her his faults always amused Felicia, even when she could not share it.
Before this placidity his sadness became a sudden throb of gloom.
Nor could Michael resent that news of death which could ennoble his mother with this placidity of comprehension, this staid and haughty mien of sorrow.
In such universal placidity it could not be wrong to hold that hand wasting itself amid small energies.
He had little time for dreaming and this was perhaps a providential dispensation, for Sir Adrian's musings had now lost much of the grave placidity born of his long, peaceful residence in his Thelema of Scarthey.
But even her expression of masterly placiditychanged before her sister Caroline's announcement and her sister Rebecca Ann's gasp of terror and distress in response.
But if this were happiness, then happiness was not what she had been accustomed to think it; where were the rest, the contentment, the placidity and satisfaction which the word was usually considered to imply?
Yet not until the last instance, amid the most convulsive writhings of her fierce spirit, was shaken the external placidity of her demeanor.
