1 The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent.
2 Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and tried to rearrange her face in more placid lines.
3 Her mind was as if a cyclone had gone through it, and it seemed strange that the dining room where they sat should be so placid, so unchanged from what it had always been.
4 In this interval between the morning party and the evening's ball, they seemed a placid, peaceful lot.
5 She thought of Melanie and saw suddenly her quiet brown eyes with their far-off look, her placid little hands in their black lace mitts, her gentle silences.
6 Until the thunders of the siege began, he had never known anything but a happy, placid, quiet life.
7 The paddock, once full of frolicking colts and placid brood mares, was empty now except for one mule, the mule Mr. Tarleton had ridden home from the surrender.
8 Carreen liked him because of his placid and unembarrassed silences.
9 They were silent for a while and Will chewed his tobacco like a placid ruminant animal.
10 But his mild face was far from placid.
11 She would not be driven by fears, day and night, and life would be a placid, unhurried affair.
12 The river road led past rocky field slopes, deep glens, woods flamboyant now with September, to Mendota, white walls and a spire among trees beneath a hill, old-world in its placid ease.
13 She became placid, and thought well of her philosophy.
14 Across the track was a pasture of dwarf clover and sparse lawn cut by earthy cow-paths; beyond its placid narrow green, the rough immensity of new stubble, jagged with wheat-stacks like huge pineapples.
15 The well-known crack of a rifle, whose ball came skipping along the placid surface of the strait, and a shrill yell from the island, interrupted his speech, and announced that their passage was discovered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20