Placidly

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

The park is home to a motley group of amphibians, a raft of different tree species, a dozen beehives and—grazing placidly in the distance—a flock of Brittany sheep, practicing ‘ecological management.’

We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.

He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat.

“You act like you grew ten inches in the night! All right, what is it?” Jem said placidly, “We are going to give a note to Boo Radley.”