unplacid

Updated: May 22, 2025

"among least things, An undersense of greatest." A girl tries to live nobly at home and fails: she is not enough wanted, her mother is not blind, and does not want to be deposed from housekeeping; her father is not paralytic, and only wants her to play to him in the evening; life seems choked by tiny interruptions, such as doing the flowers, or writing notes, and she sinks into a placid or unplacid drudge the aspirations with which she left school have died out.

Lucy H. M. Soulsby - Stray Thoughts for Girls

Of the three seats in his own part of the carriage, one only, that opposite to him, was filled. On taking a survey of the stranger, he saw a grave person passing or past the middle age; his face had that worn, or rather that unplacid appearance, which even slight physical suffering, if habitual, gives to the features, and his eyes were pale from study or other cause.

John Henry Newman - Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert