| 1. | It was like a placid mask of servility. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 2. | Or placid skies and sun Wilt stir the waters ye. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Life in the tropics I take to be a placid torpidity. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | The high-dilating stars, the placid beckoning stars. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 7. | In a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 8. | "You've got a shirt on," Kouzma answered, with a placid smile. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | "No," answered his mother with a placid expression in her face. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |