All 5 Uses of
placid
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Separation, which was the means that chance offered to Gabriel Oak by Bathsheba's disappearance, though effectual with people of certain humours, is apt to idealize the removed object with others—notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.†
Chpt 4-6
- "My father and my grandfather were old men of the name of Gabriel," said the shepherd, placidly.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Jacob, on receiving the order to see if the liquor was warm enough, placidly dipped his forefinger into it by way of thermometer, and having pronounced it nearly of the proper degree, raised the cup and very civilly attempted to dust some of the ashes from the bottom with the skirt of his smock-frock, because Shepherd Oak was a stranger.†
Chpt 7-9
- Being a woman with some good sense in reasoning on subjects wherein her heart was not involved, Bathsheba genuinely repented that a freak which had owed its existence as much to Liddy as to herself, should ever have been undertaken, to disturb the placidity of a man she respected too highly to deliberately tease.†
Chpt 16-18
- And he took his shears and went away from her in placid dignity, as Moses left the presence of Pharaoh.†
Chpt 19-21
Definition:
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(placid) calm and not easily excited