Sample Sentences for
Jesuit
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    She sent Myeko to the kindergarten which the Jesuits reopened,  (source)
    Jesuits = members of a Christian organization known for their schools and missionary work
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    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)
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    The young girl and the intrepid Jesuit, both quaking with unchristian passion.†  (source)
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    The streets are frosty, and icy, too, but the Jesuit church is warm.†  (source)
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    The militancy of the Jesuits he somewhat resembled is a case in point.†  (source)
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    When the Jesuit returned, a few weeks after Hoyt's ordination, it had been under a cloud.†  (source)
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    My sisters are Jesuits and my little brother I don't know yet.†  (source)
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    He seemed to be around fifty or sixty, poorly shaven, with a shy, pleasant, large-featured face neither handsome nor plain— a man who would always be bigger than most of the other men in the room, though he also seemed unhealthy in some clammy, ill-defined way, with black-circled eyes and a pallor that made me think of the Jesuit martyrs depicted in the church murals I'd seen on our school trip to Montreal: large, capable, death-pale Europeans, staked and bound in the camps of the Hurons.†  (source)
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    So it was in the Middle Ages, and later the Jesuits always exploited this human trait.†  (source)
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    Jesuit?†  (source)
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    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)
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    Especially he hated the Jesuit priests who had egged the redskins on, and he had once been part of an expedition that broke into a chapel and smashed the popish idols.†  (source)
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    I cannot now repeat to you, sir, all the eloquent words and imploring language he made use of; it was more than piety, it was more than grief, and I, who am no canter, and hate the Jesuits, said then to myself, 'It is really well, and I am very glad that I have not any children; for if I were a father and felt such excessive grief as the old man does, and did not find in my memory or heart all he is now saying, I should throw myself into the sea at once, for I could not bear it.'†  (source)
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