peaceableness

Example Sentences

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Because of its mountain beauty and the diversity, industry and peaceableness of its 8,500,000 inhabitants, Ceylon has been called the Switzerland of the East.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet it is astonishing how soon, after the first rush was over, the camp would settle down into a state of comparative order and peaceableness.

From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel

At Bixton Big Tony had been no more remarkable for his willingness to work than for his peaceableness.

From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Coombs, Francis Lovell

With their amiability and sweet peaceableness they ought to be caroling the whole year round.

From Birds in the Bush by Torrey, Bradford

It lays down fundamental principles of brotherhood, of justice, of peaceableness, but the economic or political systems in which these shall be embodied, we must discover for ourselves in each age.

From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Coffin, Henry Sloane