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

We cannot expect, therefore, that our professions of peaceableness should be taken very seriously by outsiders.

From The European Anarchy by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

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

Their regard for our personal welfare and safety too much absorbs the zeal they should possess for the maintenance of the principle of the peaceableness of our Master's kingdom.

From The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones by Jones, Rufus Matthew

I can't array all my reasons now, or we should sit here all night—but I will tell you one main reason, and that is the immensely increased peaceableness of the world.

From Father Payne by Benson, Arthur Christopher