Use pews in a sentence
Sentences ending with pews
- Miss Brewer, a lady of no inconsiderable property, was among those who told him plainly that if he remained they would have to give up their pews. [9]
- There had been, indeed, a critical, anxious moment, emphasized by the agitation of bright feminine plumes and the shifting of masculine backs into the corners of the pews. [9]
- With the people in the pews? [9]
- The morning sunshine illuminated the angels in the Holt memorial window, and the inmates of the Holt Institution occupied all the back pews. [9]
- Only gradually did he become aware that it arose from the nave of the church, and, turning, his eyes fell upon the bowed head and shoulders of a woman kneeling in one of the pews. [9]
- We determined to have an organ, and we speculated whether, by erecting it in the apse, we could not fill up that elegant portion of the church, and compel the preacher's voice to leave it, and go out over the pews. [4]
- Here there had been a decided stir among the pews. [9]
- Father Pemberton had a fair chance at rainy Sundays and hot summer-afternoon services; but the junior pushed him aside without ceremony whenever he thought there was like to be a good show in the pews. [6]
More example sentences with the word pews in them
- When they become voters, if they ever do, it may be feared that the pews will lose what the ward-rooms gain. [6]
- Are not the very pews in which they sit as closed to us as their houses? [9]
- The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple. [5]
- My glance wandered to the pews which held the committees from various organizations, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Bar Association, which had come to do honour to my father. [9]
- Below him, in the pews, were the rich. [9]
- The sensation in the pews, as Alison interpreted it and exulted over it, was one of bewildered amazement that this was their rector, the same man who had preached to them in June. [9]
- I noticed that the names of the owners, and sometimes their coats-of-arms, were carved or painted on the backs of the seats, as if the pews were not put up at yearly auction. [4]
- Our parish is so large, one can't pretend to preach to all the pews at once. [6]
- They were very shrewd, but it had not occurred to them to give the best pews to the sitters able to pay the most money for them. [4]
- But after the pulpit has said what it thinks of the pulpit, it is well to listen to what the pews have to say about it. [6]
- It had painted pews without cushions, and no pulpit, properly speaking, but it had a platform. [5]
- Inside, tall, square pews with flapping seats, and a gallery running round three sides of the building. [6]
- Boards were laid over the tops of the pews, on these some straw was spread, and on this the wounded lay, with little or no covering other than such scanty clothes as they had on. [6]
- Could weekly contributions, on the envelope system, be relied upon, provided the people continued to come and fill the pews of absent and outraged parishioners? [9]
- And do we not all look about us in the pews, when he thus moralizes, to see who has prospered? [4]
- The pews had high backs, with narrow, uncushioned seats. [4]
- But pews without heads in them are a still more depressing spectacle. [6]
- Congratulations on the fact that his congregation was increasing brought him little comfort, since a cold analysis of the newcomers who were renting pews was in itself an indication of the lack of that thing he so vainly sought. [9]
- Front pews, old Dr. Kittredge and all the mansionhouse people and distinguished strangers,--Colonel Sprowle and family, including Matilda's young gentleman, a graduate of one of the fresh-water colleges,--Mrs. Pickins (late Widow Rowens) and husband,--Deacon Soper and numerous parishioners. [6]
- There is no better church music in this city, and we have a beautiful service in the evening at which, all pews are free. [9]
- Many and many a time I have attended the annual sale in his church, and bought up all the pews on a margin--and it would have been better for me spiritually and financially if I had stayed under his wing. [5]
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