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Shakers   /ʃˈeɪkərz/   Listen
Shakers

noun
1.
A celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States.  Synonym: United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.






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"Shakers" Quotes from Famous Books



... provided with meat platter, vegetable dishes, bread plate, butter dish, sugar bowl, milk pitcher, water pitcher, salt and pepper shakers, etc. The only need of a waiter is to bring the food to the tables and replenish the dishes. Each boy takes his turn at waiting. If there are seven boys in a tent, a boy serves one day in seven. He ...
— Camping For Boys • H.W. Gibson

... Tennessee, and preached among the Indians. He wrote a valuable account of his Indian captivity, republished a few years since by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, and a treatise on Indian warfare, besides two controversial pamphlets against the Shakers. He died in Washington county, Ky., in 1812, aged about ...
— Chronicles of Border Warfare • Alexander Scott Withers

... their industry involves a considerable outlay of muscular strength? For a reply to this question the National Consumers' League turned to the reports of women's work as machine ironers and hand ironers, workers at mangles, folders, and shakers of sheets and napkins from wringers in the steam ...
— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt

... that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury. To him, as to other single-minded men in every age and race, from Diogenes to the brothers of Saint Francis, from the Montanists to the Shakers, the love of possessions has appeared a snare, and the burdens of a complex society a source of needless peril and temptation. Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of ...
— The Soul of the Indian - An Interpretation • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman



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