Tess, who twice daily milked eight or ten cows that stood placidly for her in the field, unrestrained by bail or leg-rope, also helped in butter and cheese making. |
So life moved placidly forward, in his last days, from nonage to nonagenarianism, and boredom was the worst thing that could happen to him. |
That afternoon, he placidly installed the wheels, pinions, minute hand, hour hand, pendulum and a multitude of other vital, mechanical bits into a complete clock. |
I walked placidly toward the center, my bare feet faintly slapping against the firmness of the marble platform. |
Yet Kosovo will not wait placidly forever: this week a bomb in Pristina killed two people. |
Unlike many mountain rivers, the Arctic Red flows placidly for much of its course. |