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Quakers
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    Turkey was served for supper, and candy and gifts from the Quakers and the American Friends Service were distributed to the children in every block.†  (source)
    Quakers = members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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    OUR OPENER WAS AT HOME ON a Friday night against the Franklin Quakers at Memorial Stadium.†  (source)
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    She goes to priests, nuns, Protestants, Quakers.†  (source)
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    That's one of those Quaker school girls," he murmured.†  (source)
    Quaker = a member of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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    They weren't all Quakers, some of them weren't even religious.†  (source)
    Quakers = members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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    Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.†  (source)
    Quakerish = having the characteristics of a "Quaker"
    standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" to Quaker means having the characteristics of a Quaker. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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    However, when I had brushed my hair very smooth, and put on my black frock — which, Quakerlike as it was, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety — and adjusted my clean white tucker, I thought I should do respectably enough to appear before Mrs. Fairfax, and that my new pupil would not at least recoil from me with antipathy.†  (source)
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    They hated to go, fought against going, enlisting me and their father against Rose, but she labeled their clothes, packed their trunks, and drove them down to the Quaker school in West Branch.†  (source)
    Quaker = a member of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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    The Quakers here didn't hold with slavery and tried hard to convince others that slavery was against God's will.†  (source)
    Quakers = members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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    They were just in time to see another figure standing against a pedestal near the reclining marble: a breathing blooming girl, whose form, not shamed by the Ariadne, was clad in Quakerish gray drapery; her long cloak, fastened at the neck, was thrown backward from her arms, and one beautiful ungloved hand pillowed her cheek, pushing somewhat backward the white beaver bonnet which made a sort of halo to her face around the simply braided dark-brown hair.†  (source)
    Quakerish = having the characteristics of a "Quaker"
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    The stronger curiosity of the women had drawn them quite to the edge of the Green, where they could examine more closely the Quakerlike costume and odd deportment of the female Methodists.†  (source)
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    I found Taylor and Wylie Hayes through Lillian Gordon, a kind Quaker lady who rescued me from a dirt trail about three miles east of Fowlers Key, Florida.†  (source)
    Quaker = a member of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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    PARRIS, in a fury: What, are we Quakers?†  (source)
    Quakers = members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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    Rosaleen let me bring it home, right into the living room, where I strewed a box of Quaker Oats on the floor for it to eat and she didn't raise a word of protest.†  (source)
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    In his first two weeks, all he sold was some Quaker Oats and penny candy.†  (source)
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    There were general stores, restaurants, and an open-door warehouse with box towers of Domino sugar and Quick napkins, Post Toasties and Quaker Oats visibleinside.†  (source)
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