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paternoster
noun as in open sesame
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Some said "Our Father" and some "Paternoster," and they all meant the same.
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The exhortation was usually followed by a loud saying of a Paternoster and a "Hail Mary" by all present.
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The lad knelt down, and devoutly said his Paternoster, and began to play upon his pipe so that it was heard over hill and dale.
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“It is as though the bearer had run for a paternoster-while, and then leaped the river,” Dick observed.
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They gave me the address of a magazine in your Rue Paternoster, and at that place I was this morning informed where to find you.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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