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  • Sent psychologists out to these people's houses, gave them a free TV set to submit to an anonymous interview, hooked them to polygraphs, studied their brain waves as they showed them choppy, inexplicable movies of porn queens and late-night car crashes and Sammy Davis, Jr., put them in sweet-smelling, mauve-walled rooms and asked them questions about Ethics so perplexing that even a Jesuit couldn't respond without committing a venial sin.†   (source)
  • The young girl and the intrepid Jesuit, both quaking with unchristian passion.†   (source)
  • The militancy of the Jesuits he somewhat resembled is a case in point.†   (source)
  • He was raised in New York City, the product of a classical Jesuit education: Regis for high school, where he had four years of Latin and Greek, and Fordham University for college, where he read everything from the ancients to Wittgenstein and Heidegger and thought about an academic career in philosophy before settling on medicine.†   (source)
  • He had outlived twelve station chiefs; one of these, a retired field officer, had a brother who was a Jesuit.†   (source)
  • The Jesuits taught me to examine things for second meanings and deeper connections.†   (source)
  • The Jesuit's index finger, which was already raised to illustrate additional tortures, remained suspended like a lightning rod above his head.†   (source)
  • It felt like a penance invented by the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • Their teacher, a delicate Jesuit with forgiving eyes, would simply point him to a seat in the back row.†   (source)
  • Jesuit fathers too were falling out of the church and into love with the de Sarams with the regularity of mangoes thudding onto dry lawns during a drought.†   (source)
  • Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth--something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education, first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • My sisters are Jesuits and my little brother I don't know yet.†   (source)
  • "Jesuit?" asked Webb, bewildered.†   (source)
  • Waker, his junior by some twelve minutes, was a Roman Catholic priest, and in November, 1955, he was in Ecuador, attending a Jesuit conference of some kind.†   (source)
  • At the Jesuit church, I picked up a booklet I had also noticed on Dean Gandy's coffee table—For Men of Good Will, by Father Robert Guste.†   (source)
  • They were both of them, like the Old Man, visionaries, yet they could argue fine points like Jesuits, had memories for facts and figures, and they both had a way with people.†   (source)
  • So it was in the Middle Ages, and later the Jesuits always exploited this human trait.†   (source)
  • His own thirst for knowledge, particularly about the unsettled West, was unquenchable, and led him not only to books but also, a contemporary tells us, to "hunters and trappers, scouts, wild half-breeds, Indian chiefs, and Jesuit missionaries."†   (source)
  • From force of habit he had written at the top of the first page the initial letters of the jesuit motto:   (source)
    Jesuit = the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
  • This is not easy for a Jesuit of forty-eight standard years to admit.†   (source)
  • I've spent the last several years hanging around with Jesuits," she says.†   (source)
  • She preferred an Irish Jesuit smell to a particular Paravan smell.†   (source)
  • Jesuit brothers are not supposed to talk like that.†   (source)
  • When the Jesuit returned, a few weeks after Hoyt's ordination, it had been under a cloud.†   (source)
  • The streets are frosty, and icy, too, but the Jesuit church is warm.†   (source)
  • I'd like to be a Jesuit some day but there's no hope of that when you grow up in a lane.†   (source)
  • She wants prayers from all the priests but the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • I ride from Redemptorists to Jesuits to Augustinians to Dominicans to Franciscans.†   (source)
  • I'll take him to the Jesuits for they know the sins of the Pope himself.†   (source)
  • Their mother also called him the Jesuit but never so Nick could hear.†   (source)
  • And then the Jesuit told the boy his own story.†   (source)
  • Graduated magna cum laude in sacred theology from some Jesuit center in Europe.†   (source)
  • Not after saints, theologians or Jesuit martyrs.†   (source)
  • When Nick came back from Minnesota, Matty called him the Jesuit.†   (source)
  • Jesuit?†   (source)
  • ") About his mother, who had died shortly after his three-days-old sister, leaving Hobie an only child; and about the young Jesuit father, a football coach, who—telephoned by a panicky Irish housemaid when Hobie's father was beating Hobie "to Hinders practically" with a belt—had dashed to the house, rolled up his sleeves, and punched Hobie's father to the ground.†   (source)
  • Attean had never mentioned a priest either, but Matt knew that the French Jesuits had lived with the Indians here in Maine long before the English settlers came.†   (source)
  • Despite the decline of the Catholic Church into what amounted to a half-forgotten cult tolerated because of its quaintness and isolation from the mainstream of Hegemony life, Jesuit logic had not lost its bite.†   (source)
  • Lenar Hoyt had been a young priest, born, raised, and only recently ordained on the Catholic world of Pacem, when he was given his first offworld assignment: he was ordered to escort the respected Jesuit Father Paul Dur into quiet exile on the colony world of Hyperion.†   (source)
  • Tall, thin, ascetic, with white hair receding from a noble brow and eyes too filled with the sharp edge "of experience to hide their pain, Paul Dur was a follower of St Tellhard as well as an archaeologist, ethnologist, and eminent Jesuit theologian.†   (source)
  • Forged in Jesuit logic and tempered in the cold bath of science, ! nevertheless understood at that second the ancient obsession of the God-fearing for another kind of fear: the thrill of exorcism, the mindless whirl of Dervish possession, the puppet-dance ritual of Tarot, and the almost erotic surrender of sance, speaking in tongues, and Zen Gnostic trance.†   (source)
  • We go to school through lanes and back streets so that we won't meet the respectable boys who go to the Christian Brothers' School or the rich ones who go to the Jesuit school, Crescent College.†   (source)
  • That's what they should have over their door in Latin and I won't give them a penny because every penny you give a Jesuit goes to a fancy book or a bottle of wine.†   (source)
  • It must be grand to be a Jesuit, sleeping in a bed with sheets blankets pillows and getting up to a nice warm house and a warm church with nothing to do but say Mass hear confessions and yell at people for their sins have your meals served up to you and read your Latin office before you go to sleep.†   (source)
  • …and the green sofa, my terrible sins on Carrigogunnell, why couldn't they hang Hermann Goering for what he did to the little children with shoes scattered around concentration camps, the Christian Brother who closed the door in my face, the time they wouldn't let me be an altar boy, my small brother Michael walking up the lane with the broken shoe clacking, my bad eyes that I'm ashamed of, the Jesuit brother who closed the door in my face, the tears in Mam's eyes when I slapped her.†   (source)
  • If 'tis a thing I ever find out you were telling jokes to Jesuits I'll tear the bloody kidneys outa you.†   (source)
  • Wash yeer faces and go to the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • I'm out on O'Connell Street and why shouldn't I take the few steps to the Jesuits and tell all my sins this last night I'll be fifteen.†   (source)
  • Jesuits are very particular.†   (source)
  • They go to Mass and Communion rain or shine and every Saturday they confess to the Jesuits who are known for their interest in intelligent sins not the usual sins you hear from people in lanes who are known for getting drunk and sometimes eating meat on Fridays before it goes bad and cursing on top of it.†   (source)
  • Don't bother the Jesuit, darling.†   (source)
  • Sonny believed in the enneagram, that Jesuit-invented classification of people into personality types.†   (source)
  • You're still wicked, Jesuit.†   (source)
  • The man had his back to him, but he had no difficulty recognizing the Jesuit priest who had helped officiate at the funeral mass of old Pedro Garcia.†   (source)
  • For completeness, I must mention St. Joseph's, where, according to Matron, the Jesuits, those foot soldiers of Christ, believed in God and the Rod.†   (source)
  • For example, it was said that he was a defrocked Jesuit, gone mad; another speculation was that he had been a young, aggressive investment banker caught embezzling funds in concert with several Singapore banks.†   (source)
  • The frank laughter of the gigantic Jesuit lifted Pedro Tercero's spirits and brought a smile to his lips for the first time in three weeks.†   (source)
  • Snap to, Jesuit.†   (source)
  • They'd sent me away for a time and when I got out, I went to a small Jesuit outpost in northern Minnesota, where they specialized in hardship kids and others of uncommon qualities.†   (source)
  • Jesuit … Monk!†   (source)
  • Poor city kids who showed promise; some frail-bodied types with photographic memories and a certain unclean-ness about them; those who were bright but unstable; those who could not adjust; the ones whose adjustment was ordained by the state; a cluster of Latins from some Jesuit center in Venezuela, smart young men with a cosmopolitan style, freezing their weenies off; and a few farmboys from not so far away, shyer than borrowed suits.†   (source)
  • They told me they were sending me to the Jesuits, at the wintry end of the world, somewhere near a lake in Minnesota.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell him about the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • What the Jesuits offer.†   (source)
  • The Jesuits, according to Paulus, had been treated so brusquely in so many places for their attempts to convert and transform, decapitated in Japan, disemboweled in the Horn of Africa, eaten alive in North America, crucified in Siam, drawn and quartered in England, thrown into the ocean off Madagascar, that the founders of our little experimental college thought they'd spare the landscape some of the bloodier emblems of the order's history.†   (source)
  • Our Spanish fathers made good martyrs, but the French Jesuits accomplish more.†   (source)
  • I daresay they've got pots of money hidden away, like the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • He nearly became a Jesuit, straight from Stonyhurst.†   (source)
  • Then he asked Father Kleinsorge how he was and the Jesuit talked about his stay in the hospital.†   (source)
  • But for all that, our native priests are more devout than your French Jesuits.†   (source)
  • He offered the Jesuit first a cigarette and then whisky, though it was only eleven in the morning.†   (source)
  • But the gentle old Jesuit was unyielding.†   (source)
  • One of the Jesuits gave up his coat, another shirt; they were glad to wear less in the muggy night.†   (source)
  • He became quite friendly with Father Kleinsorge and saw the Jesuits often.†   (source)
  • The Jesuits took about fifty refugees into the exquisite chapel of the Novitiate.†   (source)
  • He did not think his weakness was worth mentioning to the other Jesuits.†   (source)
  • Next week the Jesuit came to tea again.†   (source)
  • It was Father Paneloux, a learned and militant Jesuit, whom he had met occasionally and who was very highly thought of in our town, even in circles quite indifferent to religion.†   (source)
  • I number them so that I can refer back to them when necessary: (1) I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien (sic) to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate.†   (source)
  • For it was like a band of Jesuits landing where a heathen people thirsted for baptism in the dense thousands, thronging out of their brick towns.†   (source)
  • The first month of the plague ended gloomily, with a violent recrudescence of the epidemic and a dramatic sermon preached by Father Paneloux, the Jesuit priest who had given an arm to old Michel when he was tottering home at the start of his illness.†   (source)
  • In the seventeenth century a Christian revival was impelled directly from Rome through the agency of those heroic Jesuit missionaries whose journeys, if I may permit myself the remark, are so much more interesting to read of than those of St. Paul.†   (source)
  • His last thoughts at breakfast sometimes were the next new policy, and this might be to devote himself absolutely to the bottom-most detail or fistful in a business that reckoned by tons; or, again, to skim in the big space of principle only and leave the details to subordinates--as he could do if they, and mainly I, were trustworthy; or to be a Jesuit of money; or to be self-made: that was one of his weakest ideas but it was also persistent.†   (source)
  • And then you have another think, and you see that after they rescued women from the coal mines, or pulled down the Bastille and got rid of Star Chambers and lettres de cachet, ran out the Jesuits, increased education, and built hospitals and spread courtesy and politeness, they have five or six years of war and revolutions and kill off twenty million people.†   (source)
  • A learned Scotch Jesuit in Montreal told me that our first bells, and the introduction of the bell in the service all over Europe, originally came from the East.†   (source)
  • …about their Church; he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favor, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses; he had everything except the Faith, and later liked to attend benediction in the chapel of Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks…†   (source)
  • His German Jesuit colleagues were of the opinion that in all his work he was a little too much concerned for others, and not enough for himself.†   (source)
  • A servant brought some Suntory whisky, and the Jesuit, the doctor, and the host had a very pleasant chat.†   (source)
  • The bomb blew down his house, and a joist pinned him by the legs, in full view of the Jesuit mission house across the way and of the people hurrying along the street.†   (source)
  • Father Kleinsorge and the other German Jesuit priests, who, as foreigners, could be expected to take a relatively detached view, often discussed the ethics of using the bomb.†   (source)
  • The only building they saw standing on their way to Asano Park was the Jesuit mission house, alongside the Catholic kindergarten to which Mrs Nakamura had sent Myeko for a time.†   (source)
  • The daughter of Mr Hoshijima, the mission catechist, ran up to Father Kleinsorge and said chat her mother and sister were buried under the ruins of their house, which was at the back of the Jesuit compound, and at the same time the priests noticed that the house of the Catholic-kindergarten teacher at the foot of the compound had collapsed on her.†   (source)
  • After the storm, Mr Tanimoto began ferrying people again, and Father Kleinsorge asked the theological student to go across and make his way out to the Jesuit Novitiate at Nagatsuka, about three miles from the center of town, and to request the priests there to come with help for Fathers Schiffer and La-Salle.†   (source)
  • …his house because it lay in the path of an air-raid-defence fire lane; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order's three-storey mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit; Dr Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city's large, modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors with a blood specimen for a Wassermann test in his hand; and…†   (source)
  • Father Cieslik and the rector took him as far as Kobe and a Jesuit from that city took him the rest of the way, with a message from a Kobe doctor to the Mother Superior of the International Hospital: 'Think twice before you give this man blood transfusions, because with atomic— bomb patients we aren't at all sure that if you stick needles in them, they'll stop bleeding.†   (source)
  • They now packed Father Kleinsorge's papier-mache suitcase and the things belonging to Mrs Murata and the Nakamuras into the cart, put the two Nakamura girls aboard, and prepared td start out, Then one of the Jesuits who had a practical turn of mind remembered that they had been notified some time before that if they suffered property damage at the hands of the enemy, they could enter a claim for compensation with the prefectural police.†   (source)
  • Father Cieslik started hunting in the neighbourhood of Sakai Bridge, where the Jesuits had last seen Mr Fukai; he went to the East Parade Ground, the evacuation area to which the secretary might have gone, and looked for him among the wounded and dead there; he went to the prefectural police and made inquiries.†   (source)
  • The next things he was conscious of were that he was wandering around in the mission's vegetable garden in his underwear, bleeding slightly from small cuts along his left flank; that all the buildings round about had fallen down except the Jesuits' mission house, which had long before been braced and double-braced by a priest named cropper, who was terrified of earthquakes; that the day had turned dark; and that Murata-san, the housekeeper, was near by, crying over and over, 'Shu…†   (source)
  • "Yes—Abbot Gurot, a Jesuit," said Ivan Petrovitch.†   (source)
  • I am speaking, my good engineer, of the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • O, a jesuit for your life, for diplomacy!†   (source)
  • "It's a curious thing," said Mr. Cunningham, "about the Jesuit Order.†   (source)
  • Surely you are not all Jesuits and deceivers!†   (source)
  • Adam Weishaupt modeled his humanitarian secret society strictly on the Jesuit order.†   (source)
  • "The Jesuits are a fine body of men," said Mr. Power.†   (source)
  • Or was the jesuit house extra-territorial and was he walking among aliens?†   (source)
  • In his own way he's one of life's problem children, too, a handsome Jesuit with a little moist spot.†   (source)
  • It's clear enough why you did not became a priest, a handsome Jesuit with a little moist spot!†   (source)
  • Some jesuits were walking round the cycle-track in the company of ladies.†   (source)
  • "I haven't such a bad opinion of the Jesuits," he said, intervening at length.†   (source)
  • No, let him stick to the jesuits in God's name since he began with them.†   (source)
  • Herr Naphta is first of all a Jesuit, a good and proper Jesuit.†   (source)
  • The General of the Jesuits stands next to the Pope.†   (source)
  • Rebellio carnis is what the Jesuits call it.†   (source)
  • "The Jesuits cater for the upper classes," said Mr. M'Coy.†   (source)
  • They could all have become high-up people in the world if they had not become jesuits.†   (source)
  • Then you used to address the jesuits as father, you remember?†   (source)
  • "It is bad when your fame outruns your means," said the Spanish Jesuit Gracian.†   (source)
  • He walks with haughty paces: He snuffles all he snuffle can: "He scents the Jesuits' traces."†   (source)
  • He must have been with the Jesuits, somewhere, Ivan.†   (source)
  • With the curate of Montdidier and the superior of the Jesuits of Amiens.†   (source)
  • As to texts, look at history; it, is known that all the texts have been falsified by the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • Oh, you stinking Jesuit, who taught you?†   (source)
  • The masterpiece of Jesuit architecture is at Namur.†   (source)
  • "There it is," cried the Jesuit; "the world still speaks within you in a loud voice, ALTISIMMA VOCE.†   (source)
  • " "Stop there!" cried the Jesuit, "for that thesis touches closely upon heresy.†   (source)
  • Those Jesuit confessionals are really my most delightful diversion at melancholy moments.†   (source)
  • What do you say to that, my fine Jesuit?†   (source)
  • "A RONDEAU!" said the Jesuit, disdainfully.†   (source)
  • "Till tomorrow, rash youth," said the Jesuit.†   (source)
  • _ He's a Jesuit, a Russian one, that is.†   (source)
  • "Get along with you, Jesuits!" he cried to the servants.†   (source)
  • The Jesuit raised his hands toward heaven, and the curate did the same.†   (source)
  • I ask you why your Jesuits and Inquisitors have united simply for vile material gain?†   (source)
  • "DESIDERAS DIABOLUM, unhappy man!" cried the Jesuit.†   (source)
  • That's how they speak and write too—the Jesuits, at any rate.†   (source)
  • "See what an exordium!" cried the Jesuit.†   (source)
  • We know the Jesuits, they are spoken ill of, but surely they are not what you describe?†   (source)
  • " "An admirable subject!" cried the Jesuit.†   (source)
  • The Jesuit and the curate quite started from their chairs.†   (source)
  • At his right hand was placed the superior of the Jesuits, and on his left the curate of Montdidier.†   (source)
  • He took no part in the conversation for a long while, but listened, with an air of calm enmity, while his friends discussed the Jesuits.†   (source)
  • The pageantry of his disillusion took shape in a world-old procession of Prophets, Athenians, Martyrs, Saints, Scientists, Don Juans, Jesuits, Puritans, Fausts, Poets, Pacifists; like costumed alumni at a college reunion they streamed before him as their dreams, personalities, and creeds had in turn thrown colored lights on his soul; each had tried to express the glory of life and the tremendous significance of man; each had boasted of synchronizing what had gone before into his own…†   (source)
  • In the sunset the Emperor Maximilian knelt in prayer above his bronze mourners; a quartet of Jesuit novices paced and read in the university garden.†   (source)
  • Adolphus Cusins: you are a Jesuit.†   (source)
  • He noticed that, whereas the Protestant church was nearly empty and the congregation had a listless air, the Jesuit on the other hand was crowded and the worshippers seemed to pray with all their hearts.†   (source)
  • He made Philip acknowledge that those South Germans whom he saw in the Jesuit church were every bit as firmly convinced of the truth of Roman Catholicism as he was of that of the Church of England, and from that he led him to admit that the Mahommedan and the Buddhist were convinced also of the truth of their respective religions.†   (source)
  • For, if one of us goes over to Roman Catholicism, he is sure to become a Jesuit at once, and a rabid one into the bargain.†   (source)
  • She was so fascinated that, even before marrying him, she joined a committee that had been organized abroad to work for the restoration of Poland; and further, she visited the confessional of a celebrated Jesuit priest, who made an absolute fanatic of her.†   (source)
  • A man of rank, too, and rich—a man who, if he had continued to serve, might have done anything; and then to throw up the service and everything else in order to go over to Roman Catholicism and turn Jesuit—openly, too—almost triumphantly.†   (source)
  • "Well, yes—but we call it from the Jesuits, you know; it comes to the same thing," laughed the old fellow, delighted with the pleasant recollection.†   (source)
  • Oh, it is not from vanity alone, it is not from feelings of vanity that Russians become Atheists and Jesuits!†   (source)
  • Every other order of the Church had to be reformed at some time or other but the Jesuit Order was never once reformed.†   (source)
  • "Aha," Hans Castorp said to himself, "you improper Jesuit with your permutations and interpretations of the crucifixion.†   (source)
  • Settembrini shouted after him, as the ex-Jesuit left the table and hurried to the coatrack to gather up his furs.†   (source)
  • Not as slaves, allowing ourselves to be caught by the hooks of the Jesuits, but carrying our Russian civilization to THEM, we must stand before them, not letting it be said among us that their preaching is 'skilful,' as someone expressed it just now."†   (source)
  • "There's no mistake about it," said Mr. M'Coy, "if you want a thing well done and no flies about, you go to a Jesuit.†   (source)
  • In the vestry a plump fresh-faced jesuit and an elderly man, in shabby blue clothes, were dabbling in a case of paints and chalks.†   (source)
  • "Come, come, I've always heard that you ran away with the beautiful Countess Levitsky that time—throwing up everything in order to do it—and not from the Jesuits at all," said Princess Bielokonski, suddenly.†   (source)
  • But what I mean goes beyond that to the next question: is he a proper Jesuit}That's what is running through my mind.†   (source)
  • He was passing at that moment before the jesuit house in Gardiner Street and wondered vaguely which window would be his if he ever joined the order.†   (source)
  • The transept of the Jesuit Church in Gardiner Street was almost full; and still at every moment gentlemen entered from the side door and, directed by the lay-brother, walked on tiptoe along the aisles until they found seating accommodation.†   (source)
  • He had learned from Naphta that Settembrini was a Freemason—which made no less an impression on him than had the Italian's revelation of Naphta's Jesuit origins and patronage.†   (source)
  • As he came back to the hearth, limping slightly but with a brisk step, Stephen saw the silent soul of a jesuit look out at him from the pale loveless eyes.†   (source)
  • While his forehead was being wrinkled and his jaws painted black and blue by the elderly man, he listened distractedly to the voice of the plump young jesuit which bade him speak up and make his points clearly.†   (source)
  • The political-pedagogic nature of Catholicism, he added, was apparent in the Jesuit order, which had always regarded education and statecraft as its domains.†   (source)
  • True, you're a windbag and organ-grinder, but you mean well, mean better than that caustic little Jesuit and terrorist, that Spanish torturer and flogger with his flashing glasses.†   (source)
  • Stephen, preparing the words neatly in his mind, continued: —Jesus, too, seems to have treated his mother with scant courtesy in public but Suarez, a jesuit theologian and Spanish gentleman, has apologized for him.†   (source)
  • Apply to the jesuit theologian, Juan Mariana de Talavera, who will also explain to you in what circumstances you may lawfully Kill your king and whether you had better hand him his poison in a goblet or smear it for him upon his robe or his saddlebow.†   (source)
  • Fine, but don't you think that if he's a Jesuit first and a man of intellect, with permutations, second—that the second part has something to do with his illness?†   (source)
  • And he also mentioned Goethe, who, though rooted in pietism and most assuredly a Protestant, had also had a strong Catholic side, evident in his objectivism, his doctrine of the active life, and his defense of private confession—as a teacher he had been virtually a Jesuit.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the vestry a young jesuit, who was then on a visit to the college, stood rocking himself rhythmically from the tips of his toes to his heels and back again, his hands thrust well forward into his side-pockets.†   (source)
  • Banal freethinkers would have had reason to think so, It was a time when our own priests wanted to breathe the spirit of Catholic hierarchy into Freemasonry, and there was even a flourishing Jesuit lodge at Clermont, in France.†   (source)
  • As he watched this swaying form and tried to read for himself the legend of the priest's mocking smile there came into Stephen's memory a saying which he had heard from his father before he had been sent to Clongowes, that you could always tell a jesuit by the style of his clothes.†   (source)
  • A humble follower in the wake of clamorous conversions, a poor Englishman in Ireland, he seemed to have entered on the stage of jesuit history when that strange play of intrigue and suffering and envy and struggle and indignity had been all but given through—a late-comer, a tardy spirit.†   (source)
  • The young scholastic, having received the four minor orders—doorkeeper, acolyte, lector, and exorcist—and having sworn his "simple" vows, admitting him at last into the Society, now departed for the Jesuit college at Falkenburg in Holland to begin his theological studies.†   (source)
  • The Jesuit, a well-traveled man with cultured manners, a pedagogue by passion, a judge of men, a fisher of men, sat up and took notice at the first sardonic, clearly articulated answers the wretched young Jewish lad gave to his questions.†   (source)
  • And if the minister did it he would go to the rector: and the rector to the provincial: and the provincial to the general of the jesuits.†   (source)
  • Was it not a mental spectre of the face of one of the jesuits whom some of the boys called Lantern Jaws and others Foxy Campbell?†   (source)
  • And whereas Settembrini had spoken behind Naphta's back in tones of pathos-laden admonition about the Jesuit, as if he were somehow diabolic, Naphta made unperturbed fun of the other man and the sphere he came from, suggesting that the whole thing was terribly old-fashioned and backward, an attempt at bourgeois enlightenment perpetrated by yesterday's freethinkers, when in fact it was nothing more than a wretched intellectual mirage, which its self-deluded adherents ludicrously…†   (source)
  • A Jesuit— so that's it!†   (source)
  • Whatever he had heard or read of the craft of jesuits he had put aside frankly as not borne out by his own experience.†   (source)
  • And he wondered what Father Arnall and Paddy Barrett would have become and what Mr McGlade and Mr Gleeson would have become if they had not become jesuits.†   (source)
  • But apparently, given his adaptations and permutations, he was not as loyal as Joachim was to his—although, to * be sure, whenever Hans Castorp, both as a civilian and child of peace, listened to this has-been or would-be Jesuit he felt reinforced in his view that each of these two men would take pleasure in the occupation and status of the other, as something closely related to his own.†   (source)
  • A proper Jesuit!†   (source)
  • He mounted the steps from the garden in haste, eager that some prey should not elude him, and forced his way through the crowd in the hall and past the two jesuits who stood watching the exodus and bowing and shaking hands with the visitors.†   (source)
  • And yet that would be somewhat inaccurate, since the conversation was actually a monologue by Naphta, who, after only a few words contributed by the others, took sole charge—a monologue of a quite peculiar and antisocial sort, for the ex-Jesuit turned his back on Herr Settembrini, who sat at his side, fully ignored the other gentlemen, and used the occasion for an amiable lesson addressed exclusively to Hans Castorp.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, however, Kotzebue had been in the employ of the Russians, that is, of the Holy Alliance; and so Sand was presumably striking a blow for freedom—but that, too, turned improbable when one considered the fact that he counted Jesuits among his closest friends.†   (source)
  • And he began to talk about the cinchona, the china-bark tree, about the primeval forests of the Cordillera, where it grew at altitudes above ten thousand feet, which was why the bark, known as "Jesuits' powder," had been so late in coming to Spain— though the natives of South America had long known its powers.†   (source)
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