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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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

It is a first-person narrative of Quakerish composure, slightly reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson’s work, about a woman who is a born writer, who carries the burden of the unspeakable: her childhood.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2018

“Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess,” Jane chides Rochester.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016

He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat.

From Time Magazine Archive

“No, no, sir! think of other subjects, and speak of other things, and in another strain. Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë