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  • OUR OPENER WAS AT HOME ON a Friday night against the Franklin Quakers at Memorial Stadium.†   (source)
  • I'll go to the Quakers.†   (source)
  • PARRIS, in a fury: What, are we Quakers?†   (source)
  • servants, who came from southern England to Virginia in the midseventeenth century; then the Quakers, from the North Midlands to the Delaware Valley between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; and finally, the people of the borderlands to the Appalachian interior in the eighteenth century.†   (source)
  • They were a family of politically conscious Quakers committed to racial equality.†   (source)
  • Pleasants' father came from a family of Quakers, and one of his distant relatives had been the first to fight successfully to free his own slaves through the Virginia courts.†   (source)
  • Hassan had attended a Quaker school in Lebanon, and then college in the United States at the State University of New York in Oswego—"the same college as Jerry Seinfeld," he liked to tell people.†   (source)
  • In the 1700s, a few Quakers vigorously denounced slavery, but they were dismissed as crackpots and had no influence.†   (source)
  • They fought with Cromwell—some of them; they came over and robbed the Indians in true sanctimonious fashion, and persecuted the Quakers; and down the line a bit I get some Quaker blood that stood for its beliefs in the stocks, and sacrificed its ears for what it thought right.†   (source)
  • Besides, he was a Quaker, and though of robust physique, a childhood accident had left him with a stiff right leg and a limp.†   (source)
  • Johnson & Johnson and Quaker State and RCA Victor and Burlington Mills and Bristol-Myers and General Motors.†   (source)
  • Ruth Paine, being a peace-loving Quaker, would never allow the gun in her garage, but she has no idea it's there.†   (source)
  • After she went to that Quaker school they lost track of her.†   (source)
  • She was a Quaker, like so many of the Caucasians who came in to teach and do volunteer work.†   (source)
  • Less the babes, the frail elderly, those few who must needs labor even on the Lord's Day, and the handful of Quakers and nonconformists who bide up on the high farms, the number who gather each week in our church is a firm two hundred and one score worshipers.†   (source)
  • Old Childs was a Quaker and all, and he read the Bible all the time.†   (source)
  • UN Quaker mission,†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I had bought it on the confidence of the agent (not Liv Crawford, but someone very much like her), who assured me it was a solid investment, and also because my store was just beginning to do a steady business, the nearby county hospital having finally opened, and the land cleared and foundation laid for the large retirement home on Quaker's Ridge.†   (source)
  • His grays were called Quaker Lady and Quaker Gent.†   (source)
  • But I was finally converted when I encountered the letters of two Quaker brothers, farmers from New York State, whose ideological convictions overcame their pacifism and caused them to enlist, leaving behind a widowed mother.†   (source)
  • Instead I keep hearing about a city of ten thousand Quakers!†   (source)
  • In that same year, 1820, the year of the Missouri Compromise, Thomas Garrett and his wife, Sarah, both Quakers, moved from Darby, Pennsylvania, to Wilmington, Delaware.†   (source)
  • He was a Quaker.†   (source)
  • I haven't seen much myself, except in church matters and we Quakers don't do things that way; we wait until the Spirit moves.†   (source)
  • My father's family was Quaker," he says.†   (source)
  • Two of the Quakers appear onscreen, a man and a woman.†   (source)
  • That's one of those Quaker school girls," he murmured.†   (source)
  • Threaten the men in there with the Quakers and they'll give you the drawers off their arses.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bowles was a straight-backed woman dressed in Quaker gray.†   (source)
  • We are not Quakers here yet, Mr. Proctor.†   (source)
  • Did you know that some girl from the Quaker school came by here at eightthirty, looking for him?†   (source)
  • They weren't all Quakers, some of them weren't even religious.†   (source)
  • She goes to priests, nuns, Protestants, Quakers.†   (source)
  • Even plain Quakers, he reported, served ducks, hams, chickens, beef, creams, and custards.†   (source)
  • To many staunchly pacifist Quakers any step that led nearer to all-out war was anathema.†   (source)
  • Adams found most Quakers to be "dull as beetles," but Hopkins was an exception.†   (source)
  • As a Quaker and ardent Republican, Logan was not the sort of man Adams was known to favor.†   (source)
  • As a "fighting Quaker," he had since become Washington's aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • He wore the wide-brimmed hat that the Quakers wear.†   (source)
  • Bob said a prayer for both of them and then we sat quietly for a long time, Quaker fashion.†   (source)
  • After they finished eating, the Quaker led them out of the house.†   (source)
  • Among them was Bob Baxter, but the Quaker couple did not attend most of the meetings.†   (source)
  • His Quaker friend said, "Thee made it, John, with the help of the Lord, as I knew thee would."†   (source)
  • She had been hidden in the attic of the home of a Quaker.†   (source)
  • Anyone could put on the clothes of a Quaker, a Quaker's clothing did not turn a man into a friend.†   (source)
  • They were thinking, New shoes, Thomas Garrett, Quaker, Wilmington—what foolishness was this?†   (source)
  • J. Miller McKim, a Quaker, was the president.†   (source)
  • He was a Quaker and his speech was a little different from that of other people.†   (source)
  • When he received this information, he went to a Quaker friend of his for advice and help.†   (source)
  • Quaker's low-fat Chewy Chocolate Chunk Granola Bars are a 2, Keebler Club Partners Crackers are a 5, and Kellogg's Corn Flakes are a 14.†   (source)
  • No one in the Family has ever concerned himself with Lunatics before, although your Grandfather was a Quaker clergyman.†   (source)
  • —Quaker prophecy Philadelphia, 1793.†   (source)
  • "My grandfather was a Quaker," he says.†   (source)
  • Still, there's a severe and unadorned elegance about her — like a Quaker meeting house which has its appeal; an appeal which, for him, is aesthetic only.†   (source)
  • And you, woman, if you go to the Quakers you'll lose your immortal soul and the souls of your children.†   (source)
  • The other house was Quakers too, and they were pay dirt, because they were a station on the Underground Femaleroad.†   (source)
  • I also believe that they didn't catch him or catch up with him after all, that he made it, reached the bank, swam the river, crossed the border, dragged himself up on the far shore, an island, teeth chattering; found his way to a nearby farmhouse, was allowed in, with suspicion at first, but then when they understood who he was, they were friendly, not the sort who would turn him in, perhaps they were Quakers, they will smuggle him inland, from house to house, the woman made him some hot coffee and gave him a set of her husband's clothes.†   (source)
  • Q, it said, which meant Quaker.†   (source)
  • In numbers, if not in influence, Presbyterians and Baptists had long since surpassed the Quakers of the Quaker City.†   (source)
  • Because education did not figure prominently in his father's idea of the Quaker way, young Nathanael had received little schooling.†   (source)
  • Your people Quakers?†   (source)
  • They fought with Cromwell—some of them; they came over and robbed the Indians in true sanctimonious fashion, and persecuted the Quakers; and down the line a bit I get some Quaker blood that stood for its beliefs in the stocks, and sacrificed its ears for what it thought right.†   (source)
  • Paine is a Quaker housewife who was introduced to the Oswalds by George de Mohrenschildt, the well-educated Russian with possible CIA connections whom Oswald met in the summer of 1962.†   (source)
  • long before she was ready, it seemed, but Klara also liked looking right through the tonal components, the high theory of color, the theory of paint itself, perhaps—looking into the depths of the picture, at the mother, the woman, the mother herself, the anecdotal aspect of a woman in a chair, thinking, and immensely interesting she was, so Quaker-prim and still, faraway-seeming but only because she was lost, Klara thought, in memory, caught in the midst of a memory trance, a strong and elegiac presence despite the painter's, the son's, doctrinal priorities.†   (source)
  • Not Quakers.†   (source)
  • Wickford had made his shaft well—for all that people here disparaged Quakers for their peculiar beliefs, none could claim that they were not heedful craftsmen in all they did and made.†   (source)
  • This Jake was a baby she found, and he and Sing grew up together, and I guess rather than be packed off to some Quaker school, she ran away with him.†   (source)
  • They marched east to Sandtown, then north-northeast to Quaker Bridge by mud roads frozen as hard as rock.†   (source)
  • George and Cleath Wickford, a young Quaker couple with three children, had settled in an abandoned croft on the outskirts of the village some five years earlier.†   (source)
  • Sing had said she was going to a Quaker school, but she joined Jake on his wagonful of ex-slaves heading for Boston or somewhere.†   (source)
  • Resolved to become a "fighting Quaker," he made himself as knowledgeable on tactics, military science, and leadership as any man in the colony.†   (source)
  • The sisterly friendship that had begun to blossom between the optimistic little Quaker, Merry Wickford, and the grim and damaged Jane Martin, and how it seemed a healing thing for the spirits of both.†   (source)
  • On a later Sunday he and a friend attended a Quaker meeting, but after sitting through two hours during which not a word was said, they happily repaired to a nearby tavern.†   (source)
  • A Quaker school.†   (source)
  • I determined to give my land and cottage to the Quaker child, Merry Wickford, so that if she chose to stay in the village she would have a home more certain than a tenant's croft and something other than a lead vein on which to build her future.†   (source)
  • He was the third of the eight sons of a prominent, industrious Quaker also named Nathanael, and the one, of all the sons, his father counted on most to further the family interests.†   (source)
  • Clinton was overruled, and though unconvinced, he departed dutifully for Rhode Island, where his expedition seized Newport without opposition and the predominantly Quaker inhabitants seemed quite happy to live in peace under his protection.†   (source)
  • "All this is done by private donation and chiefly by the people called Quakers," he informed his wife.†   (source)
  • In explanation, a romantic story spread— a story that would become legendary—that a Mrs. Robert Murray, a Quaker and an ardent patriot, had delayed William Howe and his generals by inviting them to afternoon tea at her country home at Inclenberg, later known as Murray Hill.†   (source)
  • Adams had come to believe that Dickinson's real struggle was with his mother and his wife, both devout Quakers who bedeviled him with their pacifist views.†   (source)
  • Greene, with his love of literature and political philosophy, had taken a great liking to the brilliant Paine, an impoverished English immigrant, who, like Greene, had been raised a Quaker, and whose pamphlet, Common Sense, since its appearance early in the year, had become more widely read than anything yet published in America.†   (source)
  • And though in recent years the Quakers of the city had been freeing more and more of their slaves, such notices as Franklin once published, offering "a likely wench about fifteen years old," were still to be seen in Philadelphia newspapers.†   (source)
  • A British spy in Philadelphia named Gilbert Barkley reported to his contact in London, "The Quakers and many others look on him [Adams], and others of his way of thinking, asthe greatest enemies of this country."†   (source)
  • With numerous denominations to choose from (everything except Congregational), he tried nearly all—the Anglican Christ Church, the meetinghouses of the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, the German Moravians—and passed judgment on them all, both their music and the comparative quality of their preaching.†   (source)
  • Married to a Quaker heiress, he lived in grand style, riding through the city in a magnificent coach-and-four attended by liveried black slaves.†   (source)
  • The tentative attitude of Dickinson and the "Quaker interests" was becoming more and more difficult to tolerate.†   (source)
  • In numbers, if not in influence, Presbyterians and Baptists had long since surpassed the Quakers of the Quaker City.†   (source)
  • Franklin was loved for his sober, homespun look—the fur hat, the uncurled, unpowdered hair, the spectacles on the end of his nose—and widely believed to be a Quaker, a misunderstanding he made no effort to correct.†   (source)
  • Ranged behind were forty-seven of the fifty-six delegates who had signed the Declaration, each quite recognizable, including Adams's favorite, Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island, standing at the rear with his Quaker hat on.†   (source)
  • As conceived by its English Quaker founder, William Penn, in 1682, the plan of Philadelphia was a spacious grid, which to a man like John Adams, accustomed to the tangle of Boston's narrow streets, seemed a sensible arrangement.†   (source)
  • The malig-nant air of calumny has taken possession of almost all ranks and societies of people in this place," wrote Christopher Marshall, an apothecary and committed patriot (though a Quaker) who had become one of Adams's circle of Philadelphia friends.†   (source)
  • Sailors, tradesmen, mechanics in long leather aprons, journeymen printers, house-painters, sail-makers, indentured servants, black slave women, their heads wrapped in bright bandannas, free black stevedores and draymen, mixed together with Quaker merchants and the elegants of the city in their finery, everyone busy about something, and everyone, it seemed to visitors, unexpectedly friendly and polite.†   (source)
  • Knowing nothing of armed ships, he made himself expert, and would call his work on the naval committee the pleasantest part of his labors, in part because it brought him in contact with one of the singular figures in Congress, Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island, who was nearly as old as Franklin and always wore his broad-brimmed Quaker hat in the chamber.†   (source)
  • The free Negroes, the Quakers, the Methodists, the German farmers, who helped runaway slaves in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, started using phrases and words suited to the idea of a railroad.†   (source)
  • He wore the wide-brimmed hat of a Quaker, and she thought perhaps he is really a friend, and yet one could never be sure.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile John Bowley and his Quaker friend had evolved a plan, a bold and desperate plan, which might or might not work.†   (source)
  • Thus she and her passengers rode to the next stop on the road (the Underground Railroad), a farm belonging to another Quaker, where they left the horse and wagon to be picked up by its owner.†   (source)
  • The Quaker agent in Cambridge, knowing, as all such people did, that he was watched constantly, and that his mail might be censored, sent a message to William Still in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • Sanborn had told her something of its history, said that years ago a Quaker, a woman, had been hanged there and that a mob once tried to hang William Lloyd Garrison there.†   (source)
  • In the spring of the same year, Thomas Garrett, Quaker, who since 1822 had been offering food and shelter to runaway slaves in Wilmington, Delaware, was tried and found guilty of breaking the law covering fugitive slaves.†   (source)
  • She told them about Thomas Garrett, and the food and the warmth of the welcome that awaited them in Wilmington, and thought of the many different times she had invoked the image of the tall, powerfully built Quaker with the kind eyes, to reassure herself, as well as a group of runaways who stumbled along behind her.†   (source)
  • Our Quaker Aunt told me that this was her habit; for she said how one case there had "shocked her".†   (source)
  • She has that "meet me later" look...My little Quaker down in Quaker town.†   (source)
  • I don't know what things were like with these two Quaker-favored men in their respective towns.†   (source)
  • "The pigeon," said Archimedes, "is a kind of Quaker.†   (source)
  • The girls sang: "There's a Quaker Down in Quaker Town.†   (source)
  • Two years earlier, a Quaker professor of dendrology from the University of Washington named Floyd W. Schmoe, driven, apparently, by deep urges for expiation and reconciliation, had come to Hiroshima, assembled a team of carpenters, and, with his own hands and theirs, begun building a series of Japanese-style houses for victims of the bomb; in all, his team eventually built twenty-one.†   (source)
  • ms Compare the following Christian letter: In the Year of Our Lord1682 To ye aged and beloved, Mr. John Higginson: There he now at sea a ship called Welcome, which has on board too or more of the heretics and malignants called Quakers, with W. Penn, who is the chief scamp, at the head of them.†   (source)
  • On the billboards, too, he saw a pretty poster, showing her as the Quaker Maid, demure and dainty.†   (source)
  • Well, she was a tortured soul who put her Church before the interests of a Philadelphia Quaker.†   (source)
  • For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters.†   (source)
  • The Quakers who may be found there shall be whipped and imprisoned with hard labor.†   (source)
  • He was a Quaker, or something of that sort, if I am not mistaken.†   (source)
  • Figs, on the contrary, was as calm as a quaker.†   (source)
  • Exactly, he is a Quaker, with the exception of the peculiar dress.†   (source)
  • Tom always spoke reverently of the Quakers.†   (source)
  • They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.†   (source)
  • Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.†   (source)
  • She looked like St. Catherine in a Quaker dress.†   (source)
  • He even talked of the expediency of reviving the persecution of Quakers and Anabaptists.†   (source)
  • And a Quaker flying a kite is a much more ridiculous object than anybody else.'†   (source)
  • "I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker.†   (source)
  • "And doctor him up among the Quakers!" said Phineas; "pretty well, that!†   (source)
  • For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least.†   (source)
  • The next morning was a cheerful one at the Quaker house.†   (source)
  • The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent.†   (source)
  • 'So,' says one, 'they are up in the Quaker settlement, no doubt,' says he.†   (source)
  • Simeon Halliday was there, and with him a Quaker brother, whom he introduced as Phineas Fletcher.†   (source)
  • There was a gentle bustle at the Quaker house, as the afternoon drew to a close.†   (source)
  • And again, this side of that third window from the front, but beyond that dreaded group of the Aldens, that very large and whiskered man who looked something like an old-time Quaker turned bandit—Heit was his name.†   (source)
  • She came of Quaker stock, and he and his family, formerly Dissenters, were now members of the Church of England.†   (source)
  • And it stirs a little of the faith of your fathers that is deep down within you to have to have it taken for granted that you are an Episcopalian when really you are an old-fashioned Philadelphia Quaker.†   (source)
  • She looked at the sorrel, and the red and white and yellow clover, and the quaker grass, and the daisies, and the bents that composed it.†   (source)
  • The hair was drawn straight back behind the ears, and covered, except for an inch or two above the brow, by a net Quaker cap.†   (source)
  • She had cried out, when I carried up her dinner, that she couldn't bear any longer being in the cold; and I told her the master was going to Thrushcross Grange, and Earnshaw and I needn't hinder her from descending; so, as soon as she heard Heathcliff's horse trot off, she made her appearance, donned in black, and her yellow curls combed back behind her ears as plain as a Quaker: she couldn't comb them out.†   (source)
  • The furniture was formal, grave, and quaker-like, but well-kept; and had as prepossessing an aspect as anything, from a human creature to a wooden stool, that is meant for much use and is preserved for little, can ever wear.†   (source)
  • It was quite usual for men more or less connected with the Quakers, who never held slaves to adopt the first expedient.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIII — The Quaker Settlement†   (source)
  • No wonder they laughed, for the expression of his face was droll enough to convulse a Quaker, as he stood and stared wildly from the unconscious innocents to the hilarious spectators with such dismay that Jo sat down on the floor and screamed.†   (source)
  • I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem; and it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in King Philip's war.†   (source)
  • It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest.†   (source)
  • He wore blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen.†   (source)
  • a generalizer; that is, no doubt, one of the new sects that afflict the country," muttered Mr. Dunham, whose grandfather had been a New Jersey Quaker, his father a Presbyterian, and who had joined the Church of England himself after he entered the army.†   (source)
  • In defiance of conventual rules, and the edicts of popes and councils, the sleeves of this dignitary were lined and turned up with rich furs, his mantle secured at the throat with a golden clasp, and the whole dress proper to his order as much refined upon and ornamented, as that of a quaker beauty of the present day, who, while she retains the garb and costume of her sect continues to give to its simplicity, by the choice of materials and the mode of disposing them, a certain air of coquettish attraction, savouring but too much of the vanities of the world.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "That for your Moravians!" cried March, snapping his fingers; "they're the next thing to Quakers; and if you'd believe all they tell you, not even a 'rat would be skinned, out of marcy.†   (source)
  • This work is deserving of the especial attention of the reader; it contains a mass of curious documents concerning Penn, the doctrine of the Quakers, and the character, manners, and customs of the first inhabitants of Pennsylvania.†   (source)
  • Since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists; I am the great patron and prompter of slave-dealers and the grand-master of the Salem witches.†   (source)
  • I brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch — all being too close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement — we descended, Adele wondering whether the petit coffre was at length come; for, owing to some mistake, its arrival had hitherto been delayed.†   (source)
  • I used to call them my birds last summer, and Mother said they reminded her of me—busy, quaker-colored creatures, always near the shore, and always chirping that contented little song of theirs.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He is a Quaker then?†   (source)
  • I said one day to an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, "Be so good as to explain to me how it happens that in a State founded by Quakers, and celebrated for its toleration, freed blacks are not allowed to exercise civil rights.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure I've never heard 'em spoken of by any other' name than Quakers, so called," returned Remarkable, betraying a slight uneasiness; "I should be the last to call them otherwise, for I never in my life used a disparaging' tarm of the Judge, or any of his family.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • She saw the children of the settlement on the grassy margin of the street, or at the domestic thresholds, disporting themselves in such grim fashions as the Puritanic nurture would permit; playing at going to church, perchance, or at scourging Quakers; or taking scalps in a sham fight with the Indians, or scaring one another with freaks of imitative witchcraft.†   (source)
  • I've always set store by the Quakers, they are so prettyspoken, clever people, and it's a wonderment to me how your father come to marry into a church family; for they are as contrary in religion as can be.†   (source)
  • I saw she was a Methodist, or Quaker, or something of that sort, by her dress, but I didn't know she was a preacher.†   (source)
  • See also the law against the Quakers, passed on October 14, 1656: "Whereas," says the preamble, "an accursed race of heretics called Quakers has sprung up," etc. The clauses of the statute inflict a heavy fine on all captains of ships who should import Quakers into the country.†   (source)
  • So the lily face looked out with sweet gravity from under a grey Quaker bonnet, neither smiling nor blushing, but with lips trembling a little under the weight of solemn feelings.†   (source)
  • Knowing the sentiments of the father in relation to this people, it was no wonder that the son hesitated to avow his connection with, nay, even his dependence on the integrity of, a Quaker.†   (source)
  • She was not in black this morning, for her Aunt Poyser would by no means allow such a risk of incurring bad luck, and had herself made a present of the wedding dress, made all of grey, though in the usual Quaker form, for on this point Dinah could not give way.†   (source)
  • When Marmaduke first became the partner of young Effingham, he was quite the Quaker in externals; and it was too dangerous an experiment for the son to think of encountering the prejudices of the father on this subject.†   (source)
  • I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especially as Peleg, his friend and old shipmate, seemed such a blusterer.†   (source)
  • But either his success, or the frequency of the transgression in others, soon wiped off this slight stain from his character; and, although there were a few who, dissatisfied with their own fortunes, or conscious of their own demerits, would make dark hints concerning the sudden prosperity of the unportioned Quaker, yet his services, and possibly his wealth, soon drove the recollection of these vague conjectures from men's minds.†   (source)
  • Dinah had taken off her little Quaker bonnet again, and was holding it in her hands that she might have a freer enjoyment of the cool evening twilight, and Seth could see the expression of her face quite clearly as he walked by her side, timidly revolving something he wanted to say to her.†   (source)
  • But, as yet we have not to do with such an one, but with quite another; and still a man, who, if indeed peculiar, it only results again from another phase of the Quaker, modified by individual circumstances.†   (source)
  • No; I slept, ears and all, for an hour or two, for I was pretty well tired; but when I came to myself a little, I found that there were some men in the room, sitting round a table, drinking and talking; and I thought, before I made much muster, I'd just see what they were up to, especially as I heard them say something about the Quakers.†   (source)
  • I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.†   (source)
  • He visited the Quaker, in high anger; but, being possessed of uncommon candor and fairness, was soon quieted by his arguments and representations.†   (source)
  • There was nothing so very particular, perhaps, about the appearance of the elderly man I saw; he was brown and brawny, like most old seamen, and heavily rolled up in blue pilot-cloth, cut in the Quaker style; only there was a fine and almost microscopic net-work of the minutest wrinkles interlacing round his eyes, which must have arisen from his continual sailings in many hard gales, and always looking to windward;—for this causes the muscles about the eyes to become pursed together.†   (source)
  • Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison.†   (source)
  • So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with Scripture names—a singularly common fashion on the island—and in childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman.†   (source)
  • But unlike Captain Peleg—who cared not a rush for what are called serious things, and indeed deemed those self-same serious things the veriest of all trifles—Captain Bildad had not only been originally educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism, but all his subsequent ocean life, and the sight of many unclad, lovely island creatures, round the Horn—all that had not moved this native born Quaker one single jot, had not so much as altered one angle of his vest.†   (source)
  • The young man took advantage of this opportunity to secure his own freedom, and fled to the protection of a Quaker, who was quite noted in affairs of this kind.†   (source)
  • She gave such a bound from the floor, as she clapped her little hands, that two stray curls fell from under her Quaker cap, and lay brightly on her white neckerchief.†   (source)
  • Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified by things altogether alien and heterogeneous.†   (source)
  • Blast that infernal Quaker!†   (source)
  • He immediately made him out free papers; deposited a sum of money in the hands of the Quaker, to be judiciously used in assisting him to start in life, and left a very sensible and kind letter of advice to the young man.†   (source)
  • The snowy lisse crape cap, made after the strait Quaker pattern,—the plain white muslin handkerchief, lying in placid folds across her bosom,—the drab shawl and dress,—showed at once the community to which she belonged.†   (source)
  • It was a side of the subject which he never had heard,—never had thought on; and he immediately told the Quaker that, if his slave would, to his own face, say that it was his desire to be free, he would liberate him.†   (source)
  • "Nicely," said Ruth, taking off her little drab bonnet, and dusting it with her handkerchief, displaying, as she did so, a round little head, on which the Quaker cap sat with a sort of jaunty air, despite all the stroking and patting of the small fat hands, which were busily applied to arranging it.†   (source)
  • As we at this place take leave of Tom Loker, we may as well say, that, having lain three weeks at the Quaker dwelling, sick with a rheumatic fever, which set in, in company with his other afflictions, Tom arose from his bed a somewhat sadder and wiser man; and, in place of slave-catching, betook himself to life in one of the new settlements, where his talents developed themselves more happily in trapping bears, wolves, and other inhabitants of the forest, in which he made himself quite a name in the land.†   (source)
  • I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market.†   (source)
  • I went down, and found they were two of our Quaker members.†   (source)
  • Only one Quaker, Mr. James Morris, appear'd to oppose the measure.†   (source)
  • Say not that ye are persecuted, neither endeavour to make us the authors of that reproach, which, ye are bringing upon yourselves; for we testify unto all men, that we do not complain against you because ye are Quakers, but because ye pretend to be and are NOT Quakers.†   (source)
  • To the Representatives of the Religious Society of the People called Quakers, or to so many of them as were concerned in publishing the late piece, entitled "THE ANCIENT TESTIMONY and PRINCIPLES of the People called QUAKERS renewed, with Respect to the KING and GOVERNMENT, and touching the COMMOTIONS now prevailing in these and other parts of AMERICA addressed to the PEOPLE IN GENERAL."†   (source)
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