Jesuitic

Last and greatest, see, for one moment, the Abbe Maury; with his jesuitic eyes, his impassive brass face, 'image of all the cardinal sins.' ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

Who are they that, carping and quarrelling, in their jesuitic most moderate way, seek to shackle the Patriotic movement? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

With such sanctified meekness does the Incorruptible lift his seagreen cheek to the smiter; lift his thin voice, and with jesuitic dexterity plead, and prosper: asking at last, in a prosperous manner: "But what witnesses has the Citoyen Barbaroux to support his testimony?" ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

How his answers and explanations flow ready; jesuitic, plausible to the ear! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

He assumed his grand jesuitic airs, and, although with honeyed word he would take the liberty of censuring me because I sometimes spent a night out, and, as he would say, “God knows where!” ❋ Unknown (1827)

He assumed his grand jesuitic airs, and, although with honeyed word he would take the liberty of censuring me because I sometimes spent a night out, and, as he would say, "God knows where!" ❋ Giacomo Casanova (1761)

What is the church? is a question upon which all the subtilty of jesuitic schoolmen and casuists has been exhausted, to mystify and mislead the honest inquirer in every age. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)