quaker

Example Sentences

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Yellow to brown, large-sized bean; dully roast, but free from quakers.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

Oh, such quakers we begin it, Timorous of the icy route!

From Poems Vol. IV by Howard, Hattie

This kind ov a laff belongs tew jolly good phellows who are az helthy az quakers, and who are az eazy tew pleaze az a gall who iz going tew be married to-morrow.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

It is the largest of all coffee beans, and makes an elephantine roast, free from quakers, but woody and generally disagreeable in the cup.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

No damage was done that I could learn, and they do not appear to dread them much, having an outlet for these sulphureous quakers in an extensive volcano.

From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by Macaulay, W. Hastings