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Updated: June 4, 2025
For what says Luigi Pulci? `Dombruno's sharp-cutting scimitar had the fame of being enchanted; but, says Luigi, `I am rather of opinion that it cut sharp because it was of strongly-tempered steel. Yes, yes; Paternosters may shave clean, but they must be said over a good razor." "See, Nello!" said Macchiavelli, "what doctor is this advancing on his Bucephalus?
She could see so perfect was the day the line marking the Minquiers far on the southern horizon, the dark and perfect green of the Jersey slopes, and the white flags of foam which beat against the Dirouilles and the far-off Paternosters, dissolving as they flew, their place taken by others, succeeding and succeeding, as a soldier steps into a gap in the line of battle.
"Then what do you do with that?" "We pray by it." "Pray by it! I do not understand." "We keep count of our prayers." "Count! why?" "Why, how could we remember them else?" "But why should you remember?" "Poor ignorant child! When thou comest to make confession, thou wilt find that the priest will set thee for penance, so many Aves and so many Paternosters." "What are those?"
As he went from the church, they brought him, upon a dray drawn with oxen, a confused heap of paternosters and aves of St. Claude, every one of them being of the bigness of a hat-block; and thus walking through the cloisters, galleries, or garden, he said more in turning them over than sixteen hermits would have done.
Just high enough was the little chair that of a certain day in the year its owner might look out and see mystic fires burning round the Paternosters, and lighting up the sea with awful radiance.
Scarce a rock to be seen from the hut but had some legend like this: the burning Russian ship at the Paternosters, the fleet of boats with tall prows and long oars drifting upon the Dirouilles and going down to the cry of the Crusaders' Dahindahin! the Roche des Femmes at the Ecrehos, where still you may hear the cries of women in terror of the engulfing sea.
To their remonstrances Cosimo replied in four memorable sayings: 'Better the State spoiled than the State not ours. 'Governments cannot be carried on with paternosters. 'An ell of scarlet makes a burgher. 'I aim at finite ends. These maxims represent the whole man, first, in his egotism, eager to gain Florence for his family, at any risk of her ruin; secondly, in his cynical acceptance of base means to selfish ends; thirdly, in his bourgeois belief that money makes a man, and fine clothes suffice for a citizen; fourthly, in his worldly ambition bent on positive success.
Sancho did so, and, bidding them farewell, allowed his eyes to be bandaged, but immediately afterwards uncovered them again, and looking tenderly and tearfully on those in the garden, bade them help him in his present strait with plenty of Paternosters and Ave Marias, that God might provide some one to say as many for them, whenever they found themselves in a similar emergency.
After she had repeated several Paternosters, the thought that she must die without receiving the last unction weighed heavily on her soul.
The desire to gain this good round sum made them try again, and the king amused himself for about an hour at the expression of these faces, the preparations, jokes, grimaces, and other monkey's paternosters that they performed; but they were bailing their boats with a sieve, and for men who preferred closing their fists to opening them it was a bitter sorrow to have to count out, each one, a hundred crown to Madame.
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