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Philadelphians general ly accepted the discomforts and irritations of the tie-up with Quakerlike placidity�and even with some good humor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sunday meant morning, afternoon and evening services at the English Brethren Church, a small, Quakerlike sect.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Russia the Doukhobors or Spirit-Wrestlers, eager to escape from the military service their Quakerlike creed forbade, turned to Canada, and by 1899 over seven thousand of these people were settled in the West.

From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

The stronger curiosity of the women had drawn them quite to the edge of the Green, where they could examine more closely the Quakerlike costume and odd deportment of the female Methodists.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

It is furnished with Quakerlike simplicity but with everything necessary to make life comfortable.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted