quaker
Example Sentences
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Both Isaac and Amy were prominent members of the Quaker faith and supported its then-radical ideas about equality in all forms.
From Literature
For months, activists have been demanding more support from city leadership, explained Elias Siegelman, an activist who works with No ICE Philly, which meets in the quintessentially Pennsylvanian location of a Quaker meeting house.
From Salon
Originally a Quaker, the story follows her as she moves away from that order, and crosses the Atlantic to America where hundreds join her on her religious journey.
From BBC
The sect is known as the Shaking Quakers, for their combination of a Quakerish faith in the individual spiritual experience and a worship style characterized by a feral sort of dancing.
The connections it traces are fascinating—the unexpected role of Quakers in both the Birmingham gun factories and the whaling industry, for instance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
