Rifle at hand, he watched for the smugglers who walk their loads across the placid river and onto his 165-acre spread.

The normally placid river that crossed the meadows was boiling!

I didn't have long to wait, for even in the blackness of the moonless night the ship could be spied far up the placid river.

His gaze swept put over the roffing hills and the placid river.

The Nile is a placid river, not given at all to violent moods.

The Cam is normally a placid river but flooding does occasionally happen.

The placid river encouraged that kind of foolish thinking.

Standing near the top of the bridge abutment, I stared at the placid river below my feet.

The Arlid was a placid river, smooth-flowing, and bore their weight without complaint.

At the edge of the city they came to a broad, placid river, with no bridges in sight.