Quaker

Examples

• There was no lack of cheerfulness on board the Quaker City. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The very beautiful and substantial side-wheel steamship Quaker City has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave New York June 8th. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And Moore, Quaker-like, had replied with another query, Could I be? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was a Quaker, or something of that sort, if I am not mistaken. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Three-fourths of the Quaker City's passengers were between forty and seventy years of age! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And a Quaker flying a kite is a much more ridiculous object than anybody else. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He visited the Quaker, in high anger; but, being possessed of uncommon candor and fairness, was soon quieted by his arguments and representations. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Figs, on the contrary, was as calm as a quaker. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Let us average the ages of the Quaker City's pilgrims and set the figure down as fifty years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Sometimes it seems to me, somehow, that there must be a difference between Parisian French and Quaker City French. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Are you a Quaker? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• General Griffin was attacked near where the Quaker Road intersects the Boydton Road, but repulsed it easily, capturing about one hundred men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some of the Quaker City's passengers had arrived in Venice from Switzerland and other lands before we left there, and others were expected every day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But she should be dressed as a nun; I think she looks almost what you call a Quaker; I would dress her as a nun in my picture. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There, at any rate, he found his wife, grandmother Elliott, who was Mercy Peckham, daughter of a Scotch Quaker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Quakers, whose principles are opposed to fighting, even in their own defence, were most active upon this occasion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And doctor him up among the Quakers! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She has got all her ideas of Dissenters from the Quakers, has not she? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The late resolution of the Quakers in Pennsylvania, to set at liberty all their negro slaves, may satisfy us that their number cannot be very great. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It asserts the liberty of conscience, in behalf of the Anabaptists, the Quakers, and other sectarians that had been persecuted. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Tom always spoke reverently of the Quakers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Maryland; the quakers, that of Pennsylvania. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One of his friends, who sat next to me, said, Franklin, why do you continue to side with those Quakers? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But come, friends, whether Quakers or cotton-printers, let us hold a peace-congress, and let out our venom quietly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mrs. Yorke awarded the palm to Moravians and Quakers, on account of that crown of humility by these worthies worn. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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