The full name of the Quakers is the Religious Society of Friends, and are very serious about non-violence and peace. From Wordnik.com. [Tis the Gift to Be Simple, Tis the Gift to Be Free] Reference
S.B. Weeks, in Southern Quakers and Slavery, states that the. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Caroline County, Virginia] Reference
Being Quakers is no excuse for that kind of un-American behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Political Debate Gets Genealogical] Reference
We expected 20-30 Quakers from the region (which covers the southwestern part of Ontario and also the Niagara area to the East). From Wordnik.com. [Roller-coaster] Reference
France, the Quakers were the most clamorous for war. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
Religious Society of Friends -- better known as the Quakers. From Wordnik.com. [The Click Heard Round the World] Reference
People called Quakers, in which their Fundamental Principle. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers] Reference
"But I guess that's the dilemma Quakers have had for 300 years.". From Wordnik.com. [The Quaker Vote] Reference
"We know the Quakers are our friends, and the pacifists," said he. From Wordnik.com. [Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921] Reference
Expostulatory (An) Letter from One of the People called Quakers to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Annual Catalogue (1737) Or, A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c.] Reference
The Meeting House of the People called Quakers 'Stands, on the said land. From Wordnik.com. [Quaker Hill A Sociological Study] Reference
The grantee, who was one of the people called Quakers, imitating the example of. From Wordnik.com. [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference
It was said yesterday, that the Quakers were a society known to the laws, and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The people called Quakers had lately made their appearance in the north of England. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
A better way for the traveller on foot is to go by the beautiful avenue called Quakers '. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
Fox was a most dangerous man, and that the Quakers were a misguided people to follow him. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Quaker Saints] Reference
But the Quakers are a well known sect, numbering not less than ten thousand persons in the. From Wordnik.com. [Speech of Hon. William A. Graham, of Orange : in the Convention of North-Carolina, Dec. 7th, 1861, on the ordinance concerning test oaths and sedition,] Reference
The preachers frequently called us Quakers — the Quakers were a very still people in those days. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880] Reference
Previous to the Restoration, the Quakers were the only dissenters with whom Connecticut had to deal. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference
The Quakers were the most widely scattered and in numbers probably the strongest of the three groups. From Wordnik.com. [Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers] Reference
Another trait in the character of the Quakers, which is nearly allied to independence of mind, is courage. From Wordnik.com. [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference
The Quakers were the preseason pick to win the section title, but that was before Hooks moved to Aliquippa. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
The Quakers were the principal sect, but men of all religions were tolerated, and lived together in harmony. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
Conn., to "the society of people called Quakers," one acre in New Milford, with Meeting House, etc. thereon. From Wordnik.com. [Quaker Hill A Sociological Study] Reference
I inclined to settle among the people called Quakers, he would permit me the command of his horses, as before. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself] Reference
It is not of them that I, a descendant of the "sect called Quakers," have reason to complain in the matter of persecution. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
He opposed, for example, the persecution of the Quakers, which is such a blot upon the records both of New England and old. From Wordnik.com. [Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money] Reference
The example of the Quakers is a sufficient proof that acting upon this idea does not produce discord and domestic disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1] Reference
Mifflin, one of the people called Quakers, active in pursuit of the measures laid before Congress for emancipating the slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.] Reference
If in respect to theory the hanging of the Quakers was a confession, in the realm of practical politics it was but a Pyrrhic victory. From Wordnik.com. [Beginnings of the American People] Reference
And hence, in other countries and in other ages, there have been men, who might be called Quakers, though the word Quakerism was unknown. From Wordnik.com. [A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3] Reference
Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765] Reference
The persecution of the Quakers is a blot on their fame, only surpassed by the witchcraft cruelties of the concluding years of the century. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775] Reference
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