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Перевод: Quaker

[прилагательное]
квакерский;
[существительное]
квакер

Тезаурус:

1. His Quaker wife, the famous prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, felt members of her own family were also giving him the cold shoulder when they heard he was being "investigated" by the Ratcliff and Barking monthly meeting.
2. TIM AND PATSY STOTHERT'S QUAKER MEETING HOUSE IS APTLY NAMED, FOR IN IT DIVERSE STYLES CONVERGE AND VICTORIANA COMES FACE TO FACE WITH ART DECO.
3. The railway's engineering genius was George Stephenson ( q.v. ) and the financial backing came from a local Quaker businessman, Edward Pease.
4. The Primitive Methodist chapel on Westgate was built in 1871 to replace a smaller chapel on Quaker Lane, and a campaign is in progress at the present time to raise funds for its refurbishment.
5. This was another Quaker, John Fothergill (1712-;1780), who wrote to Linnaeus in 1774: "Our Collinson taught me to love flowers and who that shared his comradeship could do no other than cultivate plants".
6. It is ironic that the man who did so much to revive Gothic design, Thomas Rickman, was himself a Quaker.
7. We heard that a Quaker lady, Miss Maud Gurney Tyler, was giving private shorthand classes for one shilling and sixpence a lesson.
8. When confronted with Plymouth Brethren or other sects at the door, my major defence ploy was to claim that I lived in a "Quaker house".
9. It has only been there (altered from a house) since 1980 because Sir James Reckitt (of Reckitt and Colman fame) who bought Swanland manor in 1884, was a devout Quaker and would not allow a pub in the village.
10. A Quaker ironmaster, Darby was one of the key figures - perhaps the key figure - in the rise of modern British industry, having played a vital role in setting the Industrial Revolution in motion.
11. It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709, and in so doing, he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire - for a time - the centre of the industrial world, with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron.
12. As the penalty for this was death, and as John had affected the ways and dress of a Quaker, the bank manager, a Quaker himself, was somewhat loathe to bring charges.
13. But she did have an acute social conscience which Lucie Kaye, a former colleague, describes as "a Quaker mentality".