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
At Bixton Big Tony had been no more remarkable for his willingness to work than for his peaceableness.
From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Coombs, Francis Lovell
It is common in the leader of a multitude to profess peaceableness, but very unusual for the multitude itself to persevere in doing so.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
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 Brown, Alice
Possibly this assertion may seem strange to one likewise who has remarked the ordinary peaceableness of my disposition.
From Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by MacDonald, George
