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It was just as these thoughts occurred to him that he arrived at the Stone, where he stood anxiously waiting and listening, and repeating his pater noster, as well as he could, for several minutes, but without hearing or seeing any one. "I might have known," thought he, "that the rascal could bring about nothing of the kind, an' I am only a fool for heedin' him at all."

It's true they may get the best morsel in the pot and the warmest seat on the hearth and one of them, now and then, may take too long to teach a pretty girl her Pater Noster but I'm not sure we shall be better off when they're gone.

This hideous exclamation was no sooner heard by the fair Fleming, already chilled with panic, and prepared with superstition, than, believing herself visited by the devil, who was permitted to punish her for her infidelity to the marriage-bed, she uttered a scream, and began to repeat her pater noster with a loud voice.

Raphael cried, pouncing upon it. "Who knows? Suspense is so pleasant." "Unluckily," Emile said, with burlesque melancholy, "I can see no halting-place between the unbeliever's arithmetic and the papal Pater noster. Pshaw! let us drink. Trinq was, I believe, the oracular answer of the dive bouteille and the final conclusion of Pantagruel."

"What, the devil!" said Phoebus, "you know my name!" "I know not your name alone," continued the man in the mantle, with his sepulchral voice. "You have a rendezvous this evening." "Yes," replied Phoebus in amazement. "At seven o'clock." "In a quarter of an hour." "At la Falourdel's." "Precisely." "The lewd hag of the Pont Saint-Michel." "Of Saint Michel the archangel, as the Pater Noster saith."

The suspension generally lasted during the recital of a Pater Noster, an Ave Maria, or a Miserere; if the accused persisted in his denial, it was doubled. This second degree, the last of the ordinary torture, was put in practice when the crime appeared reasonably probable but was not absolutely proved.

"You'll have to; I will be the prompter." The prompter was dismissed, but the three actresses began to complain. "If we knew our parts as well as the 'pater noster' we should be certain to come to a dead stop if the prompter isn't in his box." "Very good," said I to the actress, who was to play Lindane, "I will occupy the box myself, but I shall see your drawers."

And leaning his hands on the table, looking like all the waiters that ever existed or that will ever exist, his tablier, reaching nearly to his chin, upheld by strings passed over the shoulders, he told us that it was impossible to see what was happening in the chancel; but there had seemed to be a great number of clergy seated in the darkness at the back, for one heard voices behind the tall pieces of furniture singing Latin verses; one only heard the terminations of the words, an "us" and a "noster," and words ending in "e," and the organ always coming in a little late.

Cum Talis sis, Utinam noster esses! The following Letters are so pleasant, that I doubt not but the Reader will be as much diverted with them as I was. I have nothing to do in this Day's Entertainment, but taking the Sentence from the End of the Cambridge Letter, and placing it at the Front of my Paper; to shew the Author I wish him my Companion with as much Earnestness as he invites me to be his.

T. “Greets Appius.” True; but it sounds stiff in English, doesn’t it? What is the real English of it? C. “My dear Appius?”… T. That will do; go on. C. Dubitanti mihi, quod scit Atticus noster, While I was hesitating, as our friend Atticus knows.… T. That is right.