Peaceable Definition

Peaceable Sentence Examples

• St Paul also believes in this, but insists that it is subordinate to the peaceable fruits of righteousness.

• Immense damage was inflicted by these marauders on the subjects of the empire, who seem to have been mostly too peaceable to defend themselves, and whom the emperor could not spare troops enough to protect.

• In the result nothing disturbed his peaceable possession of the see.

• They are now peaceable fisher-folk, who show considerable Mode of ingenuity in their calling.

• In character the Indians are, as a rule, peaceable, though conscious of their numerical superiority and at times driven to join in the revolutions which so often disturb the course of local politics; they are often intensely religious, but with a few exceptions are thriftless, indolent and inveterate gamblers.