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
The colonel sat there in a mild peaceableness, quite another man under the tan of his honest intimacy with the sun.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
The virtues could, of course, be similarly classified; the ferruginous virtues would include courage, self-reliance and hopefulness; the non-ferruginous, peaceableness, meekness and chastity.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
We can observe the fact that personal discipleship of Christ has given some persons in our acquaintance a rare capacity for love, for social sympathy, for peaceableness, for all the society-making qualities.
From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch
We cannot expect, therefore, that our professions of peaceableness should be taken very seriously by outsiders.
From The European Anarchy by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
