| And he smiled the passive, placable smile of the experienced commuter. |
| In some ways, Johnson seems like a less quirky, more placable version of Paul: he shares Paul's disdain for welfare and warfare, but not, for example, Paul's abiding passion for gold. |
| Nor, indeed, was the proper garrison of the fort in at all a placable mood. |
| If a placable and exorable Providence, make thyself worthy of the divine help and assistance. |
| Charles had been a silent, placable man all his life through. |
| Like Peter Owen, he had begun to discover the holy terror beneath Spark's placable exterior. |
