Usage examples for quaker
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Her manners were charming and old- fashioned, and she came of Quaker stock. – A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood
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Mr. Ellis had once shaken hands with Jerry,- but Mr. Ellis was a young man, whose Quaker father had never owned any slaves, and he could not be expected to have as much pride as one of the best " quality," whose families had possessed land and negroes for time out of mind. – The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt
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When in the evening, however, our companions were returned to London, and Mr. Johnson and myself were left alone, with only our usual family about us, " I did not quarrel with those Quaker fellows," said he, very seriously. – Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life by Hesther Lynch Piozzi