What is "quakerish"

Usage examples of "quakerish".

She never wore uniform, but a grey dress with a white collar which gave her a Quakerish air.

I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, 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.

Cass, dressed in a drab grey high-wasted poplin gown of indeterminate style, with a small Quakerish linen collar, could not have cared less what she was wearing.

She was in her street clothes now, the little brown Quakerish dress which she had chosen to wear so much since her return from the parsonage.

Eddie turned back to the two bearded men in their dark, Quakerish cloaks.

Far from being a quarrel-maker, he was peaceful to the point of Quakerish predilection.

Annie and Mary are two sober-looking little creatures, in quakerish feathers of drab and grey.

That a breakaway group of nuns at her American-financed Pentecostal Mission school had preached Quakerish non-violence at her with heavy emphasis on turning the other cheek?

Roberta, by her small, compact figure, her pale face with its pointed chin and dark eyes set so very wide apart, by a certain air of grave watchfulness, by the Quakerish tidiness of her black dress and white collar.

The simple style, the direct gray gaze was refreshing, in a Quakerish sort of fashion.

She was pretty in an understated way when she wore the Quakerish gray dress that hung on a peg in the cell.

The Quakerish gown she wore during her trial was too severe to emphasize her femininity.

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.