89 examples of paternosters in sentences

" "In a word," said Evariste Varrillat, the physician, "you think we are partly to blame for the omission of many of your Paternosters, eh?" Father Jerome smiled.

This periodical work was published by Richardson, in Paternoster row, but was discontinued about two years after.

Thither the Portugals bring a kinde of Bombast cloth of a low price, and great store of Paternosters or beads made of paltrie glasse, which they make in Chaul according to the vse of the Countrey: and from thence they cary Elephants teeth for India, slaues called Cafari, and some Amber and Gold.

In the houses the rosary was recited and pious women dedicated paternosters and requiems to each of the souls of their relatives and friends.

He says the Lord's Prayer backwards, or, to speak better of him, he hath a Paternoster by himself, and that particle, Forgive us our debts, as we forgive others, &c., he either quite leaves out, or else leaps over it.

Their merry meetings and frequent visitations, mutual invitations in good towns, I voluntarily omit, which are so much in use, gossiping among the meaner sort, &c., old folks have their beads: an excellent invention to keep them from idleness, that are by nature melancholy, and past all affairs, to say so many paternosters, avemarias, creeds, if it were not profane and superstitious.

We are but poor men of the cloister, better able to regale you with masses and orisons and paternosters, than with dinners and suppers.

How he must laugh, and how he must inwardly despise these women, who can find no better employment for the day than to mutter Paternosters, devoid of meaning, before an image of wood or stone, or to remain in the vague sanctimonious contemplation of a mysterious unknown.

He thus describes them: 'There are six cordons of large pearls, strung as paternosters; but there are five-and-twenty separate from the rest, much finer and larger than those which are strung; these are for the most part like black muscades.

* NORWICK: PRINTED BY JOSIAH FLETCHER NEW WORKS AND NEW EDITIONS Published by Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co. 25, PATERNOSTER ROW.

"] Vain Fortune A Novel By George Moore With Five Illustrations ByMaurice Greiffenhagen New Edition Completely Revised London: Walter Scott, Ltd. Paternoster Square 1895 Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty Prefatory Note

The gorgeous vaulted roof and long aisles were dim with the early evening; hundreds of worshippers sat around the sides, or kneeled in groups on the broad stone pavements, chanting over their Paternosters and Ave Marias in a shrill, monotonous tone, while the holy image near the entrance was surrounded by persons, many of whom came in the hope of being healed of some disorder under which they suffered.

London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster Row, MDCCLI.

Ipswich: Printed and sold by John Raw; sold also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, London.

London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row. 1819.

" JOHN VAN VOORST, 1. Paternoster Row.

JOHN VAN VOORST, 1. Paternoster Row.

; Paternoster Row, Cooper the bookseller, v. 117, n. 4; Piccadilly, Boswell's lodgings, ii. 219; Walpole describes a procession, iv. 296, n. 3; Poultry, No. 22, Messieurs Dilly's house: See under DILLY, Messieurs; Prince's Tavern: See SACKVILLE STREET; Printing House Square, ii. 323, n. 2; Pye Street, iv.

"I send you some paternosters [meaning, in the plural, the beads of a chaplet, or the chaplet entire]," he wrote to his wife, Catherine of Cleves; "you will have strings made for them and string them together.

London: Printed for T. N. Longman, Paternoster Row.

He shook his head incredulously when the neighbours who had gathered round the invalid each diagnosed some particular ailment, and recommended every imaginable sort of household remedy, from decoctions of rare herbs and stinking ointments to applications on the chest of miracle working prints, and tracing seven crosses on the navel with as many paternosters.

I set a pillow to his back, and went and kneeled by the bed as I used to do at good-night time when I said my Paternoster.

" We have for our purpose a very serviceable relic of the old time, called "A Merry Jest, how the Ploughman learned his Paternoster."

Betake thee, therefore, to thy paternosters, if thou has grace withal to mutter them; for within the hour thou art assuredly food for the kites of the Pré-aux-Clercssa-ha!" "Look to thyself, vile braggart!" rejoined Ogilvy, scornfully: "I promise thee thou shalt need other intercession than thine own to purchase safety at my hands.

On the same principle, I respect leaves soiled and dog's-eared, but mistrust gilt edges; love an old volume better than a new; prefer a spacious book-stall to all the unpurchased stores of Paternoster Row; and buy every book that I possess at second-hand.

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