peaceableness
Example Sentences
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Because of its mountain beauty and the diversity, industry and peaceableness of its 8,500,000 inhabitants, Ceylon has been called the Switzerland of the East.
From Time Magazine Archive
The colonel sat there in a mild peaceableness, quite another man under the tan of his honest intimacy with the sun.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
We can observe the fact that personal discipleship of Christ has given some persons in our acquaintance a rare capacity for love, for social sympathy, for peaceableness, for all the society-making qualities.
From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch
And from the peaceableness of the reply he gathered that this time the lady was not soliciting patronage but conferring it.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
Notwithstanding all the interest which the honesty, peaceableness, and innocent friendliness of the Polar tribes have for us, it is my belief that the answer must be—decadence.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
