A dozen thatch-roofed cottages clustered, amid their pastures, on the bank of a winding and placid stream.

He sat on the grassy bank of a placid stream and looked up at Newt.

Autumn rains had swelled the normally placid stream into a cold, muddy torrent.

At this point the river was some five hundred yards across, at first glance a placid stream.

For instance, I lately received a post-card bearing the picture of swans on a placid stream.

He lowered himself into the placid stream and against the sluggish current of the sewer he made his way.

The Minnesota River, up which they moved, was a more placid stream than the Mississippi.

Below was a long valley, creased by a placid stream.

Hundreds of the creatures fled to the fields, through the vast fungus plants, to the bridges over the placid stream.

In the center of the placid stream the current ran faster, and the water itself was visible.