Sentence examples for placid river from inspiring English sources

In the foreground, we see a placid river; on the horizon, dragon smoke.

Heavy rains sent the normally placid river careening far over its banks in the small hours of Friday with little warning.

Made on commission for a British aristocrat, it pictures a complicatedly structured white wooden bridge crossing a placid river under a lively, partly cloudy sky.

This place is a diametrical contrast to the desert, and walking in the lacy shade on paths along the placid river can seem like a dream.

For many, this deceptively placid river has become the sole safe passage from the catastrophe engulfing the Central African Republic (CAR).

On a recent afternoon, I found myself having lunch on a shaded patio about 20 feet from the banks of a placid river that empties out into the Adriatic Sea.

We landed on a placid stretch of river a half-mile above the falls, where the other canoeists with Black Feather, our trip outfitter, had set up tents under the spruce trees in one of the park's few planned campgrounds.

And it is this river, placid in appearance as it snakes along the southern border of Ohio, that brought immigrants like my paternal grandfather Julius Nagy nee Big nee Biggs to Martins Ferry, Ohio where he worked in the mines until he got black lung and died in California searching for a cure.  .

And it is this river, placid in appearance as it snakes along the southern border of Ohio, that brought immigrants like my paternal grandfather Julius Nagy nee Big nee Biggs to Martins Ferry, Ohio where he worked in the mines until he got black lung and died in California searching for a cure.

For Perkins it happens to be the best way to fly-fish for the wary brook trout that inhabit the river, a placid meadow stream broken by the occasional rapid.

We pass low forests, rushing rivers, huge placid lakes, empty fields where timber has been harvested.