Crossword-Solution: PATERNOSTERS 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Thirteen paternosters are assigned by our pious founder for matins, and nine for vespers; be those services doubled by thee.

Here they have resorted to the device of imposing a small satisfaction, which could indeed be rendered, as five Paternosters, a day's fast, etc.; for the rest [that was lacking] of the [in their] repentance they were directed to purgatory.

And those were the days of clippers, and the freights were clipper-freights, And we knew we were making our fortune, but she died in Macassar Straits -- By the Little Paternosters, as you come to the Union Bank -- And we dropped her in fourteen fathom; I pricked it off where she sank.

Yes, it was money idle when I patched her and put her aside (Thank God, I can pay for my fancies!) -- the boat where your mother died, By the Little Paternosters, as you come to the Union Bank, We dropped her -- I think I told you -- and I pricked it off where she sank -- ['Tiny she looked on the grating -- that oily, treacly sea --] 'Hundred and eighteen East, remember, and South just three.

Thank Gawd, I can pay for my fancies! Now what's five thousand to me, For a berth off the Paternosters in the haven where I would be? _I_ believe in the Resurrection, if I read my Bible plain, But I wouldn't trust 'em at Wokin'; we're safer at sea again.