Had I been invited, as you were, I should have pestered Prue about the buttons on my white waistcoat, instead of leaving herplacidly piecing adolescent trowsers.
Poor oldest daughter, how I should pity her," replies Prue, placidly counting her stitches.
Yes, ma'am," he placidly answered as he set the chairs for luncheon.
Christopher had come up and was standing placidly by.
Guitrel placidly took the cigar, slipped it carefully into the pocket of his great-coat, and said urbanely that he would smoke it after supper in his room.
They admired his courage when, smiling placidly between his two pale assessors, he had condemned to five years’ imprisonment three confederate anarchists, guilty of having distributed in the barracks bills exhorting the nations to fraternise.
He dreaded, on the contrary, the indifference of a placidly intractable mind.
A light birch canoe that lay placidly on the water, was reflected in its minutest fibres with a fidelity unsurpassed by the most exquisitely polished mirror.
The awakened sleeper devours the dainty morsel, grunts his satisfaction, and goes placidlyoff into dreamland again.
He went placidlyoff to sleep whilst objecting to the inadequacy of a milk diet.
We cannot even claim to be martyrs in this respect; with plenty of work the days pass placidly and cheerfully.
Presently he overhauled the sergeant and bade him follow, and together the four men darted on up the gradual incline until within ten yards of where the leaders' horses wereplacidly grazing.
Five miles out in the foothills they came upon the horses wandering placidly back to the valley, but Folsom kept on.
He had succeeded in striking a light now, and was smoking placidly enough on the boat's edge, but dreamily thoughtful, as if he were recalling matters that were past.
No," and he shook his head, and seating himself, gazed calmly and placidly at the water, as if there were no such thing as danger.
The water, still beautifully clear, moves placidly along amidst rich meadows; the near hills are low, with soft rounded summits.
From Harewood the Wharfe sweeps placidly onwards to Netherby, and to Collingham and Linton, where there is fine farming country.
Perhaps as he reads these words and asks the question where that romantic cot may be found, he is comfortably seated in it, with his feet placidly reposing upon its window-sills.
At last it collapsed, and the conqueror placidly began to eat the conquered before life was extinct.
Quite without dramatics, as placidly as if he were discussing railroad rebates, the ranger delivered his ultimatum.
Bucky glanced round warily at the fat colonel gazing placidly out of the barred window.
So her mother found her, calm and very beautiful, placidly nursing her child.
She might have slept there placidly till morning, had not a clap of thunder awakened her with a start.
Aside from the uncomplimentary features of your tirade," went on Spurrier placidly and he strolled around the table and seated himself on the window sill, "there was a germ of truth in what you said.
The bird would go to roost in its dovecote and sit all night with its head tucked placidly under its wing--and the plea for help unread on its leg--and the lawyer would never think of looking into the dovecote.
When he returned, Psmith was sitting in an armchair with his feet on the mantelpiece, musing placidly on Life.
He did these things, and could have worked placidly enough had he been alone; but the tale had reached the workshop, and there was no lack of brutish chaff to disorder him.
The hearse drew up at the chapel door, where the undertaker turned to the right-about and placidly surveyed the movements of his forces.
Joey, now unimpressionable, endured more placidly than even Dave Burge.
A Truck, propelled by the Greenwich Pensioner and the Chelsea Pensioner, each placidlysmoking a pipe, and pushing his warrior breast against the handle.
Well," said Patty, placidly gathering her skirts about her, "I told him exactly how it was.
His eyes were on young Blake no more, but rested placidly on one of Selford's best pictures on the opposite wall.
This done, he placidly placed two fives on the table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placidly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
