"Quakeress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Quakeress usually had her house full of guests—quaint, elderly folk from Delaware or from the Quaker regions of Pennsylvania— and could not give more than occasional time to these excursions. She had become devoted to Mary, whom she ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... spirit of the family; for he was so quiet and unobtrusive as to scarcely ever utter a word, except it might be to make a remark in regard to the weather or answer a question. There was also a young Quakeress by the name of Rachel Stebbins, a distant relative of the others, and they were all related to Mr. and ...
— From Wealth to Poverty • Austin Potter
... of my friends here, at their high estimate of my brain.... Having very evidently never themselves perceived any sufficient grounds for such an exalted esteem. Moreover, Mr. Combe wrote a letter to Lucretia Mott (the celebrated Quakeress, who is a good friend of mine), when he heard that she had made my acquaintance, cautioning her against falling into the mistake which all my American friends committed, of "exaggerating my reasoning powers." ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble |
