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If it's Morse's quakerish sense of duty which compels him to serve society by solving its crimes, he's equally compelled by his need to make sense of the senseless.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

I found another animal associate in Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey, where Modestine, the titular beast with "a quakerish elegance" has "her own private gait".

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2010

There was something neat and high-bred, a quakerish elegance, about the rogue that hit my fancy on the spot. 

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Her hair, of an ashen shade, clung to her hollow temples; there was not one loose lock, or the suggestion of a ripple under her quakerish bonnet.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston

She accordingly arose—reluctantly as she always left him—and went into the bedroom and put on her quakerish bonnet.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston