...went to attend their worship at Niskayuna. It was natural to suppose that their dancing was a sort of imitation of that of the dervishes, in which enthusiasm...When silence was obtained, after the movement of the entrie, the whole group were formed in regular lines, and commenced singing certain spiritual songs...

...elders of the two sexes leading the advance, and one following the other in what is called single tile. The men arranged themselves on one side of the room,...after the movement of the entree, the whole group were formed in regular lines, and commenced singing certain spiritual songs of their own composition...

...however, were rigid Methodists, and so of course were their visiters. Hence the whole company sat, the men on one side of the room and the women on the other, still, formal, and whispering, till a Bible was produced, out of which they read and then sang some...

...wraps his mantle closely round him, so as to appear as decent as possible. The men take their places on one side of the room, and the women on the other, while the children fill up the aisles and spaces between. All being seated, either upon low benches...

...wraps his mantle closely round him, so as to appear as decent as possible. The men take their places on one side of the room, and the women on the other, while the children fill up the aisles and spaces between. All being seated, either upon lo* benches...

...was quite a matter of grave preparation. The congregation (the Shakers) entered SHAKING QUAKERS. 249 the meeting by different doors at the same time, the...singing certain spiritual songs of their own composition (I believe) to lively tunes, and with a most villanous nasal cadency. These songs were accompanied...

...that she produced her work, sewed up at the bottom, like a meal bag. In company, the men all gather on one side of the room, and the women on the other. There they stand, grinning and making faces at each other ; so that there can never pass between the...

...intelligently and agreeably on these topics, you would see, in a small social party, the men talking politics on one side of the room, and the women on the other, discussing their domestics, their kitchen affairs, or talking over the fashions, or setting their heads...

...a large circle in an English drawing-room, exhibiting, as it usually does, the men sitting together on one side of the room, and the women on the other, was wisely broken into groups of various sizes ; nor, in London meetings for the purpose of conversation,...

...and agreeably on these topics, you would see, in a small social party, the men talking party politics on one side of the room, and the women on the other, discussing their domestics, their kitchen affairs, or talking over the fashions, or setting their heads...