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  • At the Friars 'School at Dormillière, racing with gleeful playmates around the shady playground, or glibly reciting frequent "Paters" and

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • So when he was peremptorily pushed into the room and found himself close to Marguerite, with four or five soldiers standing round them, he quietly pulled his old rosary from his pocket and began murmuring gentle "Paters" and "Aves" under his breath.

    The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • For that matter, all the folks of the region were superstitious, devout, and simple-minded, the whole countryside being peopled, so to say, with mysteries -- trees which sang, stones from which blood flowed, cross-roads where it was necessary to say three "Paters" and three

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • In addition to the patients and the hospitallers selected for duty at the piscinas, the only person in the little dressing-room was a chaplain who kept on repeating "Paters" and "Aves," for not even a momentary pause was allowed in the prayers.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871

  • In addition to the patients and the hospitallers selected for duty at the piscinas, the only person in the little dressing-room was a chaplain who kept on repeating "Paters" and "Aves," for not even a momentary pause was allowed in the prayers.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • Thereupon came a confused murmuring made up of "Paters" and "Aves," self-examinations, acts of contrition and vows of trustful reliance in

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • For that matter, all the folks of the region were superstitious, devout, and simple-minded, the whole countryside being peopled, so to say, with mysteries -- trees which sang, stones from which blood flowed, cross-roads where it was necessary to say three "Paters" and three

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871

  • In addition to the patients and the hospitallers selected for duty at the piscinas, the only person in the little dressing-room was a chaplain who kept on repeating "Paters" and "Aves," for not even a momentary pause was allowed in the prayers.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • Thereupon came a confused murmuring made up of "Paters" and "Aves," self-examinations, acts of contrition and vows of trustful reliance in

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871

  • For that matter, all the folks of the region were superstitious, devout, and simple-minded, the whole countryside being peopled, so to say, with mysteries -- trees which sang, stones from which blood flowed, cross-roads where it was necessary to say three "Paters" and three

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

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