All 4 Uses of
placid
in
The Prince and The Pauper
- "I am the King," came the answer, with placid simplicity.†
Chpt 20 *placid = calm and not easily excited
- The old man bent down and scanned the boy's reposeful face and listened to his placid breathing.†
Chpt 20
- Then he struggled again to free himself—turning and twisting himself this way and that; tugging frantically, fiercely, desperately—but uselessly—to burst his fetters; and all the while the old ogre smiled down upon him, and nodded his head, and placidly whetted his knife; mumbling, from time to time, "The moments are precious, they are few and precious—pray the prayer for the dying!"†
Chpt 21placidly = calmly
- All the company wondered at this speech, and wondered still more to see the little mendicant pick out this peer without hesitancy or apparent fear of mistake, and call him by name with such a placidly convincing air of having known him all his life.†
Chpt 32