pater-noster

Miss Rawlins looked down as well as I; her eyelids half closed, as if mumbling a pater-noster, meditating her snuff-box, the distance between her nose and chin lengthened by a close-shut mouth.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Wilhelmina, lifting up her eyes, and seeing this sable apparition, which she mistook for Satan in propria persona, instantly screamed, and began to repeat her pater-noster with an audible voice.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

Percen with a _pater-noster_ · the paleys of hevene,

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

The child crossed her arms upon her bosom, after having first made the sign of the cross upon her brow, her lips, and breast; and then, letting fall the long, black lashes of her eye-lids, commenced repeating the "pater-noster."

The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

For the tormented sufferers, in this ideal inquisition, his monks and friars say masses, all of whom must be paid for their trouble; because, no penny, no pater-noster; by which bubble the church of Rome amasses great wealth.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

To count these repetitions they made use of pebbles or beads strung upon a cord, and this apparatus was commonly known as a "pater-noster", a name which it retained even when such a string of beads was used to count, not Our Fathers, but Hail Marys in reciting Our Lady's Psalter, or in other words in saying the rosary.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

And that houly picture the ould lady says her pater-noster to!

The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895

He therefore, with a strong effort, remained silent till he had repeated a pater-noster, being the course which his confessor had enjoined him to pursue, when anger was likely to obtain dominion over him.

The Talisman 1894

"It is as though the bearer had run for a pater-noster while, and then leaped the river," Dick observed.

The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The word _pater-noster_, i.e. _pater-noster-wise_, is an heraldic term

Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852