peaceableness
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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 Francis Lovell Coombs
Yet it is astonishing how soon, after the first rush was over, the camp would settle down into a state of comparative order and peaceableness.
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles
A truce had been agreed on, and while we were acting with perfect good faith and peaceableness, your people most unjustifiably attempted to destroy us.
From Hurricane Hurry by William Henry Giles Kingston
"Whence does the Mantis derive its excessive hunger, its pugnacity, its cannibalism, and the Empusa its sobriety, its peaceableness, when their almost identical organization would seem to indicate an identity of needs, instincts, and habits?"
From Fabre, Poet of Science by Bernard Miall
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