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World democracy, rich and proud and pharisaical, is the camel before the gate of the needle's eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet it is scarcely to be supposed that in everyday Jewish life the pharisaical maxims quoted above were adhered to with any great degree of strictness.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred

Was there nothing pharisaical in the temper of this welcome?

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

"Obvious from your pharisaical expression, perhaps," he said good-naturedly.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma

And so on, for a page or two, in a tone that some may think almost as sophistical as the reasoning by which the Skinflints might excuse to themselves their pharisaical behaviour.

From Studies in Literature and History by Miller, John O.