A large photograph of a donkey, standing placidly in a small flat-bottomed boat floating on water, is more quietly curious.
The oxen stood placidly, still yoked in place, without their driver.
After stopping a shot he would then stand placidly, not budging.
The black charger, Storm, stood placidly some hundred paces away.
The animal stood placidly while I opened a vein in his leg and slowly drank my fill.
They had expected him to stand placidly by and permit his own destruction.
I was looking at the wagons of the king's company, standing all alone with their draft horses standing placidly in sixes before them.
They stood placidly while Bonnakkut reached out, took the pistol, and hurried back away.
Hurstwood stood placidly by, while the car rolled back into the yard.
Selucia, standing placidly with her hands folded at her waist, certainly never turned a hair.