All 12 Uses of
placid
in
David Copperfield
- Opposite to the tall old chimney-piece were two portraits: one of a gentleman with grey hair (though not by any means an old man) and black eyebrows, who was looking over some papers tied together with red tape; the other, of a lady, with a very placid and sweet expression of face, who was looking at me.†
Chpt 13-15
- On her face, I saw immediately the placid and sweet expression of the lady whose picture had looked at me downstairs.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- I see her, with her modest, orderly, placid manner, and I hear her beautiful calm voice, as I write these words.†
Chpt 16-18
- Here she left off, to kiss her fan again, and shake it at the Doctor, who was looking at us in a state of placid satisfaction.†
Chpt 19-21
- I felt then, more than ever, that she was my better Angel; and if I thought of her sweet face and placid smile, as though they had shone on me from some removed being, like an Angel, I hope I thought no harm.†
Chpt 25-27
- I am sure there was an influence in the placid face of Agnes, and in the very touch of her hand upon his arm, that did wonders for him.†
Chpt 34-36
- In her placid sisterly manner; with her beaming eyes; with her tender voice; and with that sweet composure, which had long ago made the house that held her quite a sacred place to me; she soon won me from this weakness, and led me on to tell all that had happened since our last meeting.†
Chpt 37-39
- As this change stole on Annie, once like sunshine in the Doctor's house, the Doctor became older in appearance, and more grave; but the sweetness of his temper, the placid kindness of his manner, and his benevolent solicitude for her, if they were capable of any increase, were increased.†
Chpt 40-42
- Her pride could still its very pulses, it appeared, and draw the placid veil before her face, through which she sat looking straight before her on the far distance.†
Chpt 46-48
- He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow.†
Chpt 58-60
- 'Are you not aware, sir,' returned Mr. Chillip, with his placidest smile, 'that your father-in-law is again a neighbour of mine?'†
Chpt 58-60
- He did not actually stagger under the negus; but I should think his placid little pulse must have made two or three more beats in a minute, than it had done since the great night of my aunt's disappointment, when she struck at him with her bonnet.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(placid) calm and not easily excited