placidness

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

Chalons is an ideally situated city, with a placidness which the slow current of the Sa�ne does not disturb.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

He breathed the placidness of a respectable old bachelor whose only love is for good living and who appreciates the digestive sleepiness of the boaconstrictor as the greatest of happiness.

From Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) by Keniston, Hayward

She went on in placidness from hour to hour, ruffled occasionally.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold