quakerish

There was good Harry Erskine, with his satirical nose and upper lip, and his mouth just open for a witticism to pop out; Hutton the geologist, in quakerish raiment, and looking altogether trim and narrow, and as if he cared more about fossils than young ladies; full-blown John Robieson, in hyperbolical red dressing-gown, and, every inch of him, a fine old man of the world;

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

But if this mass of mad contradictions really existed, quakerish and bloodthirsty, too gorgeous and too thread-bare, austere, yet pandering preposterously to the lust of the eye, the enemy of women and their foolish refuge, a solemn pessimist and a silly optimist, if this evil existed, then there was in this evil something quite supreme and unique.

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

He fancied himself already installed with Frantz in a quiet little quakerish house like that.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

We step into the club; the produce of Paris and Brussels presses strews the table, and an elderly gentleman, with a solemn face and quakerish coat, searches amongst them for the nine-and-twentieth volume of "Monte Christo," or of some other French romance of longitude equally sea-serpentine.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

Then came a grey felt hat, as stiff as a boiler-plate, and of more than quakerish lowness of crown and broadness of brim, but secularized by a silver serpent for a hatband; also, a red silk sash, which -- fastening round the waist -- held up my trousers, and interfered with my digestion; lastly, a woollen serape to sleep under, and to wear in the mornings and evenings.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Annie and Mary are two sober-looking little creatures, in quakerish feathers of drab and grey.

Gems Gathered in Haste A New Year's Gift for Sunday Schools Anonymous

But if this mass of mad contradictions really existed, quakerish and bloodthirsty, too gorgeous and too thread-bare, austere, yet pandering preposterously to the lust of the eye, the enemy of women and their foolish refuge,

Orthodoxy 1905

But if this mass of mad contradictions really existed, quakerish and bloodthirsty, too gorgeous and too thread-bare, austere, yet pandering preposterously to the lust of the eye, the enemy of women and their foolish refuge, a solemn pessimist and a silly optimist, if this evil existed, then there was in this evil something quite supreme and unique.

Orthodoxy 1905

Let it be remembered that the thought has the cast of a strictly pessimist quietism -- that the style aims, if it aims at any single thing, at the reproduction of the simpler side of classicalism, at an almost prim and quakerish

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

There was something neat and high-bred, a quakerish elegance, about the rogue that hit my fancy on the spot.

Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes 1879