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  • Me, the quietest and peaceablest and silentest wife in the world!

    The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

  • So doe all worldlings measure others by their owne length; if they see any forwardnesse in the peaceablest spirit, they ascribe it either to vaine-glory, or covetousnesse; the onely springs that set their wheeles on going: but of this the knower of the hearts must judge betweene us.

    A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

  • My mother's grandfather, Dan'l Leggo, was the piousest man that ever went smuggling, and one of the peaceablest, and scrupulous to an extent you wouldn't believe.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • We knew it must have been something very dreadful to rouse Jack to such a pitch; for, as nurse says, he is one of the "most peaceablest children that ever lived."

    We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses Barbara Yechton 1901

  • Why, some of the peaceablest folks as I've ever known -- folks as wouldn't have scared a lady-cow in their lifetime -- have left wills as have sent all their relations to the right-about, ready to bite one another's noses off.

    The Farringdons Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler 1894

  • "Eh, Manning, they're the peaceablest set ever came in a house!" exclaimed Isel.

    One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • But he's always talking of you, Polly, and telling the children about you; and is the peaceablest, patientest, best-temperedest soul in the world, as he always was and will be! '

    Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

  • Guards, and the unarmed curious are gathering, -- with the peaceablest intentions in the world.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • How Saint-Antoine male and female, and Paris generally, gave brotherly welcome, with bravo and hand-clapping, in crowded streets; and all passed in the peaceablest manner; -- except it might be our Marseillese pointed out here and there

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil 'beautifying Paris,' in the peaceablest manner, in this hopeful spring weather of 1788; the old hovels and hutches disappearing from our Bridges: as if for the

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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