"Quakerish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... He fancied himself already installed with Frantz in a quiet little quakerish house ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... puzzle the spectator. That the English are a fortune-hunting race may be a popular axiom; but it was quite possible, after all, that Roger Barnes was not the latest illustration of it. It was quite possible, also, that he had a sweet-heart at home, some quiet, Quakerish girl who would never wave in his face the red flags that Daphne was fond of brandishing. It was equally possible that he was merely fooling with Daphne—that he had seen girls he liked better in New York, and was simply killing time till a sportsman friend of whom he talked should appear ...
— Marriage a la mode • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Miss Amherst, looking up languidly from her macrame, with a frozen smile that owes its one charm to its brevity. "You have made a quick toilet." With a supercilious glance at Molly's Quakerish gown, that somehow fits her and suits her to perfection. "You ...
— Molly Bawn • Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
... —Dost not think of murdering the officers when thou gettest to sea? I protested my innocence of these things. I saw that under the mask of these half humorous inuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard. But what takes thee a-whaling? I want to know that before I think of shipping ye. Well, sir, I want to see what whaling is. ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville |
