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

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

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 Sinclair, May

With their amiability and sweet peaceableness they ought to be caroling the whole year round.

From Birds in the Bush by Torrey, Bradford

These traits are truthfulness, peaceableness, good-will, and a non-emulative, non-invidious interest in men and things.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein