Iimage of the Saints Maurus and Placid surrounded by angels in lower left corner.
It is a placid town surrounded by unruliness.
When they show up, a restaurant takes on the vibe of the Peanuts character Pig-Pen: a placid interior surrounded by a cloud of chaos.
Thirty years ago the place was empty: a long coarse sand beach protecting a placid lagoon and surrounded by wooded mountains.
By contrast, the capital of the United States "has been plumped down in a placid agricultural community, surrounded by the remnants of a Southern aristocracy... which boasts no industry other than the Bureau of Printing and Engraving plus a few riverboats which chug sleepily up the Potomac, bringing oysters, Norfolk honeymooners and split pine logs".
To look at it today, with its placid sheen, surrounding evergreens, and apparent lack of pollution or development, Thirlmere hardly looks like the site of a revolution.
It was a statue of Shiva, the Hindu god, and behind him lay a large placid lake surrounded with temples.
Like a set of toy boxes, a planting frame surrounds a placid gravel rectangle that encloses a reflecting pond.
A burglary in a placid neighbourhood represents a heightened risk to surrounding properties; the threat shrinks swiftly if no further offences take place.
The protracted legal and political battles over the outcome are now in the hands of Judge John E. Bridges of Superior Court in Chelan County, in this normally placid town surrounded by apple orchards and mountain vistas.
In Clarksville, he lived in Bancroft Circle, a placid, racially mixed neighborhood of eight motellike, one-story brick structures, each with four two-bedroom apartments, surrounding an open grassy circle with a ditch through the center.
