From quake (from an early leader's admonishment to “tremble at the word of the Lord”)
Sentence Examples
The first settlers on the site of the city were several Quaker families who came in the 18th century.
From the beginning of the 18th century the zeal of the Quaker body abated.
MARIA MITCHELL (1818-1889), American astronomer, was born of Quaker ancestry on the island of Nantucket on the 1st of August 1818.
Kilham's wife (Hannah Spurr, 1 77418 3 2), whom he married only a few months before his death, became a Quaker, and worked as a missionary in the Gambia and at Sierra Leone; she reduced to writing several West African vernaculars.
c. 4), which were strained to cover the case of itinerant Quaker preachers.