Once in a while since then, I have said my 'paternoster.'. From Wordnik.com. [Paula the Waldensian] Reference
"Well, old 'un; what luck with the paternoster?" he asked, cheerily. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
But Hendaye; if you dropped an "h" in your paternoster they'd know out as far as the three-mile limit. '. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
In Braunschweig, we played at a rather scary-looking place see picture above where the elevator was a paternoster. From Wordnik.com. [Riesenerfolg in Germany – the first English Teaching Theatre tour « Ken Wilson's Blog] Reference
These rarely took a minnow, but a gudgeon on the paternoster, and on the upper hook thereof, frequently proved fatal to. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
His paternoster and his decalogue; to only the emancipated and discerning few what he really is at his best -- their greatest earthly friend and benefactor. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
I am not like Broussin, of whom Reminiac said, that although he could distinguish a sauce almost in his infancy, he could never be taught his creed or paternoster. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Of Saint-Michael the Archangel, as says the paternoster. From Wordnik.com. [VII. The Spectre-Monk. Book VII] Reference
Not a thought of prayer, not one paternoster entered his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale] Reference
But his confessor gave him only a paternoster and an ave to say. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference
She began to repeat her paternoster, but she forgot how the words came. From Wordnik.com. [Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
She had not been able to pray; ave and paternoster alike had failed her. From Wordnik.com. [Remember the Alamo] Reference
Madame Lavigne, folding knotted hands, had muttered her last paternoster. From Wordnik.com. [The Fawn Gloves] Reference
Clement gave a very little start, and then lowered his eyes and said a paternoster. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
Oswald repeated the paternoster, in which they all joined, and then entered the closet. From Wordnik.com. [The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story] Reference
I charge myself whenever I pass the Plaza, to say a paternoster for the souls who fell there. From Wordnik.com. [Remember the Alamo] Reference
He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
And the man was glad and reputed the horse his, and granted it him, and went apart and began his paternoster. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference
Whenever these scandals reached the ears of Padre Salvi, he would smile, cross himself, and recite a paternoster. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Cancer] Reference
"Eh? Excuse me, Sister Rufa: paternoster, Ave Maria, and Gloria are like rice, meat, and sauce -- a mouthful for the saints --". From Wordnik.com. [The Social Cancer] Reference
Ods-me, thou buffalo's head stuffed with relics, what ape's paternoster art thou muttering and chattering here between thy teeth?. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
Latin fila de paternoster, numeralia de paternoster, and so on, had, at least originally, been designed for counting Our Fathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
The knight could bear it no longer and (quite forgetting his paternoster) he flung open the door and knelt at her feet, raising her hand to his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine] Reference
I know: a sort of ould clothes shop in a chapel where you're never tooken up for cheating, because you always says your paternoster-ings afore you begin. From Wordnik.com. [Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon] Reference
"Well, then; thou mayst say two aves, the creed, and thy paternoster backwards thrice, and call upon the invisible demon to appear, when he will tell thee what thou shalt do.". From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
Now hand me one of those pistols of yours, and say your paternoster while you are in the mind. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Fool Errant] Reference
"For the next seven years you must not wash yourself, nor comb your hair or beard, neither must you cut your nails nor say one paternoster. From Wordnik.com. [Grimm's Fairy Stories] Reference
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