Quakerly

So, though the saintly, admirable, Quakerly choice might be to accept death rather than kill someone, it's still easier for me to imagine myself as a killer than to imagine myself as a rapist.

Brown to Rihanna: "I'm going to kill you." Steven Barnes 2009

Quakerly compassion: A friendly vision for vitality (Quaker lecture) by J. Brent Bill

Jamie 2009

Nelson handled it with grace and class, which is very much to his credit; had it been me sitting across the table from her and she cast aspersions on my faith, I'm sure the next thing out of my mouth would have been a very un-Quakerly (but colorful) accusation of her fondness for committing indecent acts with certain barnyard creatures.

November 2006 2006

Last year, this blog made it to the semi-finals as Most Deserving of Wider Recognition, and in a burst of un-Quakerly immodesty, I have nominated myself again.

December 2005 2005

They did this openly, and yet managed by their Quakerly mojo to avoid arrest and imprisonment.

thin ties with piano keys 2005

This may not be very Quakerly advice, but bullies respect and fear someone who is crazy and dangerous.

a brick in the small of the back 2004

You can't be said, dear, to have wasted many letters on me in this absence; but if you 'feel a stop' (Quakerly speaking), best to let it have way; no good comes of forcing nature, in the matter of writing or any other matter.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

She wore a simple silk gown, of a Quakerly gray, and she held a handkerchief folded square, as it had come from the laundress.

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

She wore a simple silk gown, of a Quakerly gray, and she held a handkerchief folded square, as it had come from the laundress.

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

She wore a simple silk gown, of a Quakerly gray, and she held a handkerchief folded square, as it had come from the laundress.

A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878