Sample Sentences forQuakers (editor-reviewed)
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Quakers are known for their pacifism and early antislavery stance in the U.S. south well before the Civil War.Quakers = a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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In Boston I've heard they even hanged some Quakers. (source)Quakers = members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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Many pamphlets pro and con were publish'd on the subject, and some by good Quakers, in favour of defense, which I believe convinc'd most of their younger people. (source)Quakers = a member of the Religious Society of Friends (known for non-violence amongst other things)
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PARRIS, in a fury: What, are we Quakers?† (source)
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They were a family of politically conscious Quakers committed to racial equality.† (source)
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And none of the Quakers seemed in the least conscious of it.† (source)
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Old Childs was a Quaker and all, and he read the Bible all the time.† (source)
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Two of the Quakers appear onscreen, a man and a woman.† (source)
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Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.† (source)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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She was a Quaker, like so many of the Caucasians who came in to teach and do volunteer work.† (source)
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Threaten the men in there with the Quakers and they'll give you the drawers off their arses.† (source)
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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)
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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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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)
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He was likewise a bitter persecutor; as witness the Quakers, who have remembered him in their histories, and relate an incident of his hard severity towards a woman of their sect, which will last longer, it is to be feared, than any record of his better deeds, although these were many.† (source)
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