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---- Upon which the provost, going along with him to the house where the pretended jesuit was, and entering the room, he immediately knew Mr. Durham, and saluted him as laird of Easter Powrie, craving his pardon for their mistake, and turning to the parson, asked where the person was he called the jesuit?
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Some of your old tory friends think that there is design in all you write on these questions, and do not hesitate to designate you by the amiable title of a "jesuit," etc.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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Scrabble's North American owner, and Merriam-Webster, publisher of the players dictionary, to delete several dozen words, among them "jesuit," "libber" and "fart."
NYT > Home Page By STEFAN FATSIS 2010
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God love ya, says Biden, (Oh ya, when i quote him, inevitably there is a blurt of how zionist he is, apparently, and jesuit), whatever ... such defensiveness.
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We must remember that JESUIT GENERAL or jesuit military department is said to be in control of all intelligences ...?
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Harboring a jesuit priest could have ended up with Penelope being arrested.
Archive 2009-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
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Among all those tribes, commencing with the Shoshones, the Arapahoes, the gros-Ventres, the Blackfeet, the Piegans, the river crows, the Bloods and Assiniboines, the only ray of light I saw was on the Flathead Reservation at the jesuit mission schools, and there were boys and girls -- fifty boys and fifty girls.
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It is Teilhard de Chardin, the jesuit priest, paleontologist and explorer of the soul, whose life work was the reinterpretation of Christianity in the light of evolution, who stands impatiently at the summit of man's quest for the ultimate truth proclaiming to all that God is Love.
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I went to a jesuit high school and watched that movie each year.
Ennio Morricone Scoring Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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She belonged to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, mumbled special orisons, revered “the holy blood,” venerated “the sacred heart,” remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and through great rays of gilded wood.
Les Miserables 2008
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