Nickalls
Proper noun
Meaning
Nickalls
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Examples
Fox in Nickalls, p.3 and Jones, chapter 1 First travels Driven by his "inner voice", Fox left Drayton-in-the-Clay in September 1643, moving toward London in a state of mental torment and confusion.
Fox in Jones, chapter 12 and Nickalls, p.350 Cromwell died in September of that year.
Fox in Jones, chapter 18; Nickalls, p.642, has more complicated wording but the same meaning.
Fox in Jones, chapter 8 and Nickalls, p.199 This episode was later recalled as an example of "speaking truth to power", a preaching technique by which subsequent Quakers hoped to influence the powerful.
Fox in Nickalls, p.1–2 and Jones, chapter 1 Known as an honest person, he also proclaimed, "The Lord taught me to be faithful in all things.
Fox in Nickalls, p.12 In prayer and meditation he came to a greater understanding of the nature of his faith and what it required from him; this process he called "opening".