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Meanings of equable in English
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Examples for "placid"
Examples for "placid"
1
The winds were gone, and now it was just water, placid water.
2
The placid surface was vexed; the attempt on its being had hurt.
3
Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid.
4
Tornov thought for a moment while Bazarian raged behind a placid façade.
5
The principal object of meditation was of course the placid lake itself-
1
For an even-tempered person, she was finding it difficult to remain calm.
2
Maintaining an even-tempered attitude works best, while moody responses should be avoided!
3
Dunn is compelling as the responsible sister, even-tempered but steely and guarded.
4
She was even-tempered and calm and quite as cheerful as of old.
5
She'd been putting a great deal of energy into being amiable and even-tempered.
1
The tone in which Roger Barnes spoke was good-tempered, but quite perfunctory.
2
Algernon muttered a queer reply in a good-tempered tone, and escaped him.
3
That he was not a good-tempered man had been her firmest opinion.
4
Because I am very quick-tempered I want to live with good-tempered people.
5
Her uncle Macomer was not always good-tempered and he was never considerate.
Usage of equable in English
1
In winter time the climate is equable; in summer it is unbearable.
2
He had found Eva less equable in her tender management than usual.
3
It flowed in a steady, equable current, unvexed by storm or tempest.
4
A complete, equable circulation of the blood is thereby most perfectly secured.
5
You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
6
There is about it an equable sobriety, a sort of average endurableness.
7
A full and equable contempt would soon do away with that, too.
8
Their waters boil very gently, with an equable and almost rhythmic flow.
9
The climate was declared to be unequalled, salubrious, equable, pleasant and bracing.
10
The wise man's watch is his equable temper and his peaceful heart.
11
The one was calm, patient, practical, equable, the other imaginative, unbalanced, excitable.
12
It was all very disturbing to a man of Pobloff's equable disposition.
13
She had lost her childish vivacity-hersweet, equable flow of good humor.
14
He's not got precisely what you'd call an equable temperament, has he?
15
An equable climate the year round is the best for the chicken business.
16
The climate of the whole island is warm and moist and very equable.
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