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She felt young and, in the sunshine, with her cheeks gaining colour as the wind whipped them, she looked in her long black coat and broad brimmed straw hat, like a quakeress in love.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel

“Oh yes, it shall be such as will become a quakeress if you wish it; I will lose no time about it,” said Mr Franklin, hurrying out of the room.

From Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Had she not an eye to her husband's former alliance with the quakeress, and the Duke of York's marriage in Italy?

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne

I suppose you know—if you take any interest in that wretch—that since he married the American quakeress he took his name off the Warren Hotels Company and sold out much of his interest.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir

I remember the harsh things that were said in our denomination of Lucretia Mott, the quakeress, the reformer, the world-renowned woman preacher of the day.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)