Jesuit

in a sentence

She sent Myeko to the kindergarten which the Jesuits reopened,  (source) John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946

From force of habit he had written at the top of the first page the initial letters of the jesuit motto:  (source) James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917

I think I do it silently, but once in a while I catch the sound of my own voice, muttering away like some Jesuit saying a breviary.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

When Aringarosa got out of the car, a young Jesuit priest hurried out and greeted him.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The militancy of the Jesuits he somewhat resembled is a case in point.†  (source) Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974

Jesuit brothers are not supposed to talk like that.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

My sisters are Jesuits and my little brother I don't know yet.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker, 1995

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) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

So it was in the Middle Ages, and later the Jesuits always exploited this human trait.†  (source) Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

The young girl and the intrepid Jesuit, both quaking with unchristian passion.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

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) John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972

When the Jesuit returned, a few weeks after Hoyt's ordination, it had been under a cloud.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of torture to their tormentors.†  (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854