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
With their amiability and sweet peaceableness they ought to be caroling the whole year round.
From Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey
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
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
Lincoln's reply shows that his habitual peaceableness involved no lack of dignity; he said.
From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John George Nicolay
