Example Sentences
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At 16, Hamer left home, and over the course of the next 18 months, walked across Britain, honing the skills that make him a superlative mole catcher — invisibility and placidness.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2019
The relative placidness of inbounds skiing is no match for the greater adventure of untamed terrain.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2012
Poor little girl, it must have been horrible for her to have come in from the gay placidness of her own life and thoughts to the stark tragedy of Bridget Rendle's death.
From To Love by Peterson, Margaret
The conversation of these innocent and guileless lovers was, as it were, in unison with the placidness of the evening.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William
On the forward deck, at the foot of the mast, sat a young man in a state of placidness.
From The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories by Stockton, Frank Richard
