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Sentences ending with pulpit

Let me sweeten these closing paragraphs of an essay not meaning to hold a word of bitterness with a passage or two from the lay-preacher who is listened to by a larger congregation than any man who speaks from the pulpit. [6]
Theoretical morals are the sort you get on your mother's knee, in good books, and from the pulpit. [5]
I frequently prefer the remarks I hear from the pew after the sermon to those I have just been hearing from the pulpit. [6]
For they occupy the pulpit. [5]
The B's have taken a back seat, the C's have moved up nearer the pulpit. [4]
And he spoke solemnly, in a deep voice, as though from the pulpit. [9]
Just as many regard it as an act of piety to work an altar cloth or to cushion a pulpit. [4]
The lecture-room naturally presented itself to a scholar accustomed to speaking from the pulpit. [6]
His pew's right over opposite ourn--on t'other side the pulpit. [5]
Going over, he mounted the steps, and the people followed and crowded upon the pulpit. [11]

Sentences containing pulpit two or more times

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]

More example sentences with the word pulpit in them

A monument like your Pulpit Rock? [4]
I say to you, at the risk of the accusation of conceit, that I believed myself to have a power in the pulpit if I could only discover the truth. [9]
He wasn't charged with saying it in the pulpit, where all the congregation could hear and testify, but only outside, in talk; and it is easy for enemies to manufacture that. [5]
I saw Doltaire with Juste Duvarney spring swiftly to the side of Alixe, and, with her father, put her and Mademoiselle Lotbiniere into the pulpit, forming a ring round it, and preventing the crowd from trampling on them, as, suddenly gone mad, they swarmed past. [11]
Mr. Alexander Ireland, who had paid him friendly attentions during his earlier visit, and whose impressions of him in the pulpit have been given on a previous page, urged his coming. [6]
He succeeded pretty well, but the failure of Page, Bacon & Co. relieved him of six thousand dollars, and then, to all intents and purposes, he was a bankrupt in his old age and he resumed service in the pulpit again. [5]
Singing hymns and waving palm branches through all eternity is pretty when you hear about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable time as a body could contrive. [5]
And thus it was, that with the most friendly feelings on both sides, Mr. Emerson left the pulpit of the Second Church and found himself obliged to make a beginning in a new career. [6]
Joseph Stevens Buckminster was the pulpit darling of his day, in Boston. [6]
No pulpit eloquence was ever so moving and so beautiful as this outcast's picture of the first Mormon pilgrimage across the plains, struggling sorrowfully onward to the land of its banishment and marking its desolate way with graves and watering it with tears. [5]
This request confers upon me a certain right to express my opinion on this weighty subject without fear and without reproach even from those who might be ready to take offence at one of the laity for meddling with pulpit questions. [6]
Emerson inherited the traditions of the Boston pulpit, such as they were, damaged, in the view of the prevailing sects of the country, perhaps by too long contact with the "Sons of Liberty," and their revolutionary notions. [6]
His faith was too large and too deep for the formulae he found built into the pulpit, and he was too honest to cover up his doubts under the flowing vestments of a sacred calling. [6]
And I intend to take the pulpit and begin to preach it. [9]
As he knelt to pray before he entered the pulpit, he heard the tinkling of the little bell of honour at the knee of Luc, as Junie and Parpon helped him from the church. [11]
Also his failure to make any allusion to it whatever from the pulpit, until several years after the occurrence "3. [5]
He had many times listened to the Reverend Mr. Weightman read the parable from the pulpit, but he had never reflected how it would be to be the father of a real prodigal. [9]
He came to the village, therefore, where Father Pemberton was very glad to have him supply the pulpit in the place of his unfortunate disabled colleague. [6]
East Lexington, Mass., the Unitarian pulpit, 88. [6]
It was in the Unitarian pulpit that the brilliant talents of Buckminster and Everett had found a noble eminence from which their light could shine before men. [6]
In due course the superintendent stood up in front of the pulpit, with a closed hymn-book in his hand and his forefinger inserted between its leaves, and commanded attention. [5]
In front of the pulpit were simple decorations, boughs of pine covered the desk, and in their centre was a harp of yellow jonquils, the gift of Miss Louisa M. Alcott. [6]
Those who occupied the near seats to the right and left of the pulpit had in front of them a blank board partition, and could not by any possibility see the minister, though they broke their necks backwards over their high coat-collars. [4]
He resembled Napoleon--not the later Napoleon, but the Bonaparte, lean, shy, laconic, who fought at Marengo; and this had startled the Cure in his pulpit, and the rest of the little coterie. [11]
You interested me the first time you stepped into the pulpit of St. John's --and it will do me good to talk to you, this once, frankly. [9]
Underneath him, on the first landing of the high pulpit, the deacons sat with knitted brows, and the key-note from Isaiah Prescott's pitch pipe sounded like mournful echo of the mournful wind without. [9]
His wife was the daughter of the Reverend Daniel Bliss, his predecessor in the pulpit at Concord. [6]
The high pulpit, taken from the old meeting house, and the cricket on which he used to stand and the Bible from which he used to preach have remained objects of veneration in Coniston to this day. [9]
I'm going to take the Parson's sermon on Jonah next summer; it's the nearest to anything like news we've had from his pulpit in ten years. [4]
And that first Sunday he came, when I saw him get up in the pulpit and wave that long arm of his, all I could think of was a modern Savonarola. [9]
I took my station on the pulpit cushion, from which elevation I had an admirable view of all the ceremonies, and could hear the sermon. [4]
And this audience stared at us, and at a man seated on high behind what they call a pulpit in this country, and at some clerks and other officials seated below him--and waited. [5]
On the fourth side the pulpit, with a huge, dusty sounding-board hanging over it. [6]
Whenever she chooses, she can stretch her long arm around the world's fat belly and flirt a Reader out of his pulpit, though he be tucked away in seeming safety and obscurity in a lost village in the middle of China: "In any Church. [5]
He preaches cruel sermons in his pulpit, cruel as death, and cold-blooded enough to freeze any mother's blood if nature did not tell her he lied, and then smooths it all over with the first good-looking young woman he can get to listen to him. [6]
William Cullen Bryant says of himself, "The Calvinistic system of divinity I adopted of course, as I heard nothing else taught from the pulpit, and supposed it to be the accepted belief of the religious world. [6]
Your aunt Sally says he hates to go into the pulpit he's so ashamed; and the people have begun to cool toward him, and he ain't as popular now as he used to was. [5]
Yet, strange to say, the Church had somewhat reversed its position, and at the last had swung round to Barouche, quietly, though not from the pulpit, supporting him. [11]
You must not say anything about it in the pulpit, because that is religion, and has nothing to do with it. [7]
At last she saw him swiftly crossing the chancel, mounting the pulpit steps, and he towered above her, a dominant figure, his white surplice sharply outlined against the dark stone of the pillar. [9]
In the pulpit Roscoe was almost powerful. [11]
Lyceum, the: a pulpit, 88; New England, 192; a sacrifice, 378. [6]
Hiram Fletcher--and he promised to use his pulpit in the public interest again now. [5]
But does the preacher in the pulpit, Sunday after Sunday, year after year, shrink from speaking of sin? [4]
The coffin was placed in front of the pulpit when we arrived. [4]
It had painted pews without cushions, and no pulpit, properly speaking, but it had a platform. [5]
Of course by parents, teachers, the pulpit, and books. [5]
I read the other day that Cardinal Manning said: 'The three greatest evils in the world today are French devotional books, theatrical music, and the pulpit orator. [4]
Without a church or a pulpit, he soon had a congregation. [6]
There was no opportunity for him to splurge about from side to side of the pulpit, as some do. [4]
By the sides of the pulpit were white and scarlet geraniums and pine boughs, and high upon the wall a laurel wreath. [6]
The "sensational" pulpit of our own time could hardly surpass him in the drollery of its expressions. [6]
Suppose a party of armed foreigners were to enter a village church in America and break ornaments from the altar railings for curiosities, and climb up and walk upon the Bible and the pulpit cushions? [5]
We had not needed the information, delivered from the pulpit that evening, that Lem's was a case of special judgment--we knew that, already. [5]
Afterwards Father Gibault mounted to the pulpit and stood for a moment with his hand raised above his flock, and then began to speak. [9]
The congregation became more and more moved, as the pathetic tale went on, till at last the whole company broke down and joined the weeping mourners in a chorus of anguished sobs, the preacher himself giving way to his feelings, and crying in the pulpit. [5]
Presently one addressed me by name, and, on inquiry, I found him to be the gentleman who was with me in the pulpit as Orator on the occasion of another Phi Beta Kappa poem, one delivered at New Haven. [6]
But, for that matter, I have heard a good deal of Scripture depolarized in and out of the pulpit. [6]
One of them looked like a pulpit, a second like a camel, a third made him laugh, for it had a face with a bottle-nose, like that of the chief wine cooper at the castle. [10]
The pulpit no longer troubles itself about witches and their evil doings. [6]
The pulpit has long helped the world, and is still one of the chief defences against the dangers that threaten society, and it is worthy now, as it always has been in its best representation, of all love and honor. [6]
The actor had learned his business on the stage; the lecturer had gone through his apprenticeship in the pulpit. [6]
One of the last things which Brigham Young had done before leaving Iowa, was to appear in the pulpit dressed to personate the worshipped and lamented prophet Smith, and confer the prophetic succession, with all its dignities, emoluments and authorities, upon "President Brigham Young! [5]
The officiating minister, kneeling at the desk, gesticulated furiously, doubled up his fists and shook them on high, stretched out both arms, and pounded the pulpit. [4]
Samson, with the jawbone of the ass, still crouched and sweated, or looked as if he did, under the weight of the pulpit. [6]
But ah, dear, it won't last; this fiendish malady will play new treacheries upon her, and I shall go back to my prayers again--unutterable from any pulpit! [5]
I had, as it were, to hold on to the pulpit cushion. [4]
But I think it may safely be taken as a principle that this parish has the right to demand from the pulpit that orthodox teaching which suits it, and to which it has been accustomed. [9]
You have got into the wrong pulpit, and I have known it from the first. [6]
They were merely intended as suggestions, and so the friends were filled with consternation when the minister stood in the pulpit and proceeded to read off the curious odds and ends in ghastly detail and in a loud voice! [5]
This praying an individual to death seems absurd enough at a first glance, but then when we call to mind some of the pulpit efforts of certain of our own ministers the thing looks plausible. [5]
The Pulpit Rock, in the rough pasture land of Zoar, was reached by a somewhat tedious climb from the lonely farmhouse, in a sheltered nook, through straggling woods and gray pastures. [4]
Your place as in the pulpit. [9]
Now they spoke humbly out of the dust, from a narrower pulpit, from an older text than any they ever found in Cruden's Concordance, but there was an eloquence in their voices the listening chapel had never known. [6]
One might question how well the preacher in the pulpit liked the suggestion of the figure beneath it. [6]
As he worked his way through to the pulpit on the arm of the minister and followed by the envied officials of the village, every neck was stretched and, every eye twisted around intervening obstructions to get a glimpse. [5]
Then he raised his arm in benediction, gathered up his surplice, descended the pulpit steps, and crossed swiftly the chancel . [9]
I have found him breaking a stone in two, and labeling half of it "Chunk busted from the pulpit of Demosthenes," and the other half "Darnick from the Tomb of Abelard and Heloise. [5]
The pulpit was high,--a sort of theological fortification,--approached by wide, curving flights of stairs on either side. [4]
In her conversation, her pulpit, her literature, it is her most frequent and eloquent figure. [5]
And the anomaly he presented in what might be called the vehemence of his advocacy of an outworn orthodoxy, in his occupation of the pulpit of St. John's, had quickened at once her curiosity and antagonism. [9]
In fact, we have all listened, probably, to many a passage from old sermons of his,--for he tells us he borrowed from those old sermons for his lectures,--without ever thinking of the pulpit from which they were first heard. [6]
You are--" The half-breed interrupted: "Yes, I know, a Pagan fattening--" here he smiled, and looked at his thin hands--"fattening for the shambles of the damned, as you have said from the pulpit, Reverend Ezra Badgley. [11]
Among the stray glimpses we get of Emerson between the time when he quitted the pulpit of his church and that when he came before the public as a lecturer is this, which I owe to the kindness of Hon. [6]
If we parsons could only do that from the pulpit! [11]
Eternal Rest sounds comforting in the pulpit, too. [5]
The New England clergy can look back to a noble record, but the pulpit has sometimes required a homily from the pew, and may sometimes find it worth its while to listen to one even in our own days. [6]
Dr. James Freeman Clarke then entered the pulpit. [6]
He looked very benign as he quoted these verses in the pulpit on Sunday morning, with a half smile, as of pleased meditation. [11]
One is the bell-ringing to remind a clock-caked town that it is church-time, and another is the reading from the pulpit of a tedious list of "notices" which everybody who is interested has already read in the newspaper. [5]
It will always be Pulpit Rock. [4]
Mr. Stoker looked at it, started, changed color,--his vision of "The Dangers of Beauty, a Sermon printed by Request," had vanished,--and passed the note to Father Pemberton, who sat by him in the pulpit. [6]
In the pulpit, as like as not, otherwise you would not be taking so much pains to conceal it. [5]
Mr. H. in another pulpit, and felt that I had never half understood it before. [6]
Sprague, William Buel, Annals of the American Pulpit, 10-12. [6]
Joseph Bellamy Stoker, and the old minister appeared to great advantage contrasted with him in the pulpit. [6]
Mr. Stoker was alone m the pulpit, the Rev. [6]
Channing, William Ellery: allusion, 16; directing Emerson's studies, 51; preaching, 52; Emerson in his pulpit, 66; influence, 147, 149; kept awake, 157. [6]
Some two years ago I received a letter from a clergyman who bears by inheritance one of the most distinguished names which has done honor to the American "Orthodox" pulpit. [6]
Can he turn a priest out of his pulpit and strip him of his office and his livelihood just upon a whim, a caprice, and meanwhile furnishing no reasons to the parish? [5]

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