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Sentence Examples Rockefeller's pews are pressed into duty as a staging station for the organ's pipes and sound boxes. I would like to point out that all the old wood pews were removed when the church was modernised and redeveloped last year. The different pews found there reflect differing forms of worship down the centuries, from high church to non-conformist and back again. I find the pews strong and sturdy, where young and old alike feel secure during periods of worship or quiet reflection. Furthermore, divorced people are well represented in the churches' pews and pulpits. Inside the ellipse is the raised circular platform of the altar and rows of differently curved pews. In the recording, the choir stands in two rows at the front of the congregational pews, with the musicians placed at either side. Inside, sunlight filtered dustily through rows of high windows and settled over the empty pews. Peter, always in a festive mood, bounded up to Elizabeth with an extra piece of holly from the pews in his hand. The pews were already full, and women had plumped down in the aisles, their children scattered around them. The children are to be congratulated on their polished performances as are their teachers and proud parents who filled the pews to watch. And clearly, the mainstream of the Democratic party have no interest in legislating what people do in their bedrooms, pews and deathbeds. It looks as if there's one law for the notorious, and another for the schlemiels in the pews. The Victorian church will have new lighting and a baptistery, the pews will be replaced by chairs and it will be redecorated throughout. Students completed their restoration project to painstakingly renovate the fire-damaged pews and other fittings. People jump up from behind the pews, and a fake wall flips around to reveal a kindly organist at her pipe organ. They sing a cappella, circling the pews as congregants trickle in and join the singing. Regina genuflected before the tabernacle and then knelt down on one of the pews, made the Sign of the Cross and began to pray silently. I remember seeing Mrs. Zito praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction. Breath rasped in his throat and drops of red flew from his side as he loped past the pews. Show More Sentences With its 10 whitewood pews and four film projectors, the church serves as a 3-D museum and theater. To replace the fine organ with an electronic keyboard is bad enough, but to move the altar and remove the pews is quite unthinkable. The nearest people were five or six rows in front of me, and the pews across the aisle were empty for almost a dozen rows. She walked out into the main room and down the narrow aisle between the pews. The pillars supporting the building were of smooth white wood, the pews solid oak. The Primary school kids were all lined up in front of the pews when I arrived. The building was dark, the pews a deep red, and the stained glass windows luminous as the sun shined through them. My mom would run across Palmer Square in the purple maxi coat she still speaks fondly of and buy coffee and cookies to share in the back pews. Have the tipsy revellers in the back row of pews at midnight mass come to share the wonder of the virgin birth? I remember seeing her praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction. Weak light filters in through stained glass and creates deep shadows among the pews and misericords. Like a lot of other post-Vatican II folks in the pews, I miss something in our spare, moderne churches. At the same time, the rich and ornamental pews set up by the status-conscious clergy were to be removed and replaced by plain, unadorned ones. Becky was sitting in one of the pews nervously folding and unfolding a piece of paper, which was her speech. We camped amid the pews, an ex-con and a hugely pregnant aristocrat waddling backwards and forwards to the public loos with her sponge bag. What other venue could offer dancing in the pews, stage-diving off the pulpit, and vocals carrying unassisted by a PA system? Besides the men against the windows, particularly notable moments included the women diving head first into pews and sliding down handrails. Several pews ahead was the Lady in a grey pelisse and plain grey wide-brim hat. There was only a handful of people in the congregation, sitting on pews toward the front of the nave. The nave's interior is warmed by wood pews and window seats and red-oak ceilings. Show More Sentences From the pews the congregation looked on with mild affection, perhaps half hearing the weighty words about trust and steadfastness. She talked various relatives into donating land, helping with the construction of the church, and making pews, doors and roof struts. Hall, who speaks in soft, measured tones, spent most of his life sitting in wooden church pews, hearing about the goodness of God. It is a cold, gray church with hard wooden pews, a miserable place and after briefly walking through it Sonia wants to leave. They spent six months restoring the pulpit, wall panelling, lecterns, pews, tables and wall plaques to their former glory. Due to the pews being boxed, and most of them privately owned, by 1860 there was not enough room for the non-pew-owners to come for worship. Communicants returning to their pews will be asked to stand and sing until everyone has received Communion and the priest has sat down to pray. If our Sunday sermons were like that, we might fill a few more pews. Behind the samba beat, the country remains deeply polarized at home, in politics, and in the pews. Once, when she was in elementary school, the nun stood at the front of a church filled with children out in the pews with their voices lifted in song. These appear in the stained glass windows, stone column capitals, decorated ends of pews, or even the misericords carved on the bottom of hinged church seats. Gems such as stained glass windows, wooden pews, a pulpit and a stone font are being removed from a church in Crescent Road, Beckenham, before the site is redeveloped. I miss the days of putting on Christmas plays and pageants for the masses who would huddle in gymnasiums or church pews just to see frightened little kids put on a show. Some traditional churches have no pews and there is never an organ because of the Orthodox belief that only the human voice is permitted in the worship of God. She sat in one of the pews and stared up at the great and silent marble statue of the mother goddess, protector of women and children and the earth. I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles. She sat in the church pews waiting for the service to begin. There's something about the Christmas season that defies even the most secular of societies and brings out the people to fill up church pews in normally unheard of numbers. Garland, wreaths, and pine tree boughs would be hung, red candles lit in the windows, and holly branches attached to the outside of the pews with big red bows. When we think of pews and hassocks and the Parish Magazine, we tend to rebel against the yoke of official religion, with its suggestion of formalism and even frowstiness. Show More Sentences Gone are the days when the community of Sisters which at times numbered about twenty were in their pews at 6.30 am reciting their prayers and litanies. The room was wrecked and most of the pews had been stolen or defaced. Church dates from 1436 and contains attractive Jacobean pews and pulpit. The incised Gothic decoration on the pews mirrors the slope of the church windows. One is a tin building with pews and a dirt floor, while another is a cinder block building with secure roofing and numerous classrooms. The clowns parade over to the packed church and assemble in the front pews, squirting lapel flowers and sitting on whoopee cushions. The pews were no longer haphazard and broken, instead they now were arranged in neat rows leading up to the front, where a bemused Tane and a fully clothed Ferik sat. Francis wants the church leaders to wise up to the fact that a judgmental approach will empty the pews at an even faster rate. Ladies and gentlemen, if you wish you can come to the front chairs of your church pews. I thought, 'HIV is very much in the church, in the pews, and we have to break the silence. The Sallee church playhouse features a steeple, stained glass windows, pews and a sound system that plays hymns, sermons and wedding music. Behind them, the monks sit contemplatively in their pews, and in the side aisles a handful of the faithful lie prostrate on the floor. The pews in front of you fill up with gray and white heads, a bit like large snowflakes that arrive by walking slowly. Just like every other church, they have pews, pulpits and rooms. Subsidised religion has seldom made sense for either state or church: witness Europe's empty pews. In fact, the loudest complaints are coming from the pews rather than the press. The congregation had been invited to wear non traditional clothing and to sit in pews other than their usual location. The pulpit is now at the back of the chancel and the west choir pews are demolished. At 10:30 am, Ken and Bobby Walker and the other big boys would re-arrange the pews, ready for church at 11 am. The pews emptied as all present greeted one another in the traditional manner. Show More Sentences The Priest and me had to go into the pews, and order that faithful to consume the Host. And as I came into church my jaw dropped and my eyes popped open as I noticed that the pews were already full! And, they add, it would recognise that the Church is gravitating away from the ailing parishes and empty pews of Europe to focus on vibrant congregations to the south. I always tried to get into the spirit of things with dancing, clapping, and singing out in the pews. On either side of the chancel arch is a hagioscope or squint, the south one being slightly larger than the north one, to allow for a view of the altar from the side pews. The church interior is a true museum of polychrome decorations covering the ceilings, presbytery walls and partially the nave walls, the choirloft parapet, the pulpit, the pews in the presbytery and the rood beam. Voters waited outside and could not use the church pews. Attendance soars, as millions of once-a-year worshippers fill the pews. A couple hundred people sat elbow to elbow in solid pews. Still a fully functioning chapel with an excellent resident choir, its features include baroque reredos and wall paintings as well as the box pews and tiled flooring which date from the early 18th century. Water and food containers, pots, pans and bags of clothes line the pews. Just try to change the arrangement of the pews, let alone get rid of them. Terry Jones has long breathed fire over his pews in Gainesville, Florida. The Church should not be surprised if its pews are increasingly empty. The congregation awaiting, pews at front reserved for participants. The other church fittings come mainly from the 1600s: the main altarpiece, a pulpit, confessionals, pews in the chapel of Guardian Angels, and the statues on the rood beam. This form of incarceration excluded any form of interaction between the prisoners and is most evident in the foreboding coffin-like pews of the Chapel. For the choral benediction the choir moved to the organ pews. With the chancel partly demolished and the due date looming, Howard, Richard and Euan resumed work on Thursday, January 4 to finish the demolition and put the pews in their new position. The current seating arrangement reflects the Akron plan, typical of post-1870s Methodist churches, with curved tiger-oak pews facing a communion table set centrally within the choir stalls. Show More Sentences The fittings are primarily of the 1600s and 1700s: altarpieces, the pulpit, confessionals, stalls, pews and the Crucifixion group on the rood beam. Then some archaeologists from Israel's antiquities authority used a grant from a Jewish-Mexican benefactor to erect pews and shelves of prayer books to turn it into a synagogue. In church, when it was necessary, they hid me under the pews. Kirsten Powers on the deafening silence from U.S. pews and pulpits. The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees. The church was repurposed as a nightclub by lighting changes and removing the pews, but it never opened. I listen to the scratch of pens, the bell of the surveillante, the soughing of the organ, the creaking of pews, and I could weep for it all, for the waste of it. The pews are made of oakwood, the floor of natural stone from the Jura. They might even be more likely to not leave hymnals in the pews. Flames rapidly spread and burning beams and molten lead began to fall on the wooden stalls, pews and other ecclesiastical fixtures 130 feet below. Change became more rapid towards the close of the 1960s, as mainline churches including the Anglicans began to see the first wave of evaporation from the pews. If modern-day Docetists, Arians, and Nestorians are in our pews, they probably won't do much harm to themselves or others, and they might still lead fruitful lives. John Pews, 82, was buried under his collapsed shed for an hour before his cries for help were heard by a neighbour last month. Examples from Classical Literature The whites and blacks occupied pews promiscuously, as at Paramaribo, though there was no social admixture of races visible. Between the preacher and the pews there is certainly neither affinity nor vraisemblance. The painted and decorated pews, with the rich peasants' names in floriated design, attracted Katharine. But it was a pincushion heaven, with hymn-books in all the pews. There were the Babson girls just a few pews in front of Randy. But their rush was blocked by the onlookers who now rose from their pews in alarm and crowded the aisles. Peter's built a new church, it sent the old pews, baptismal font, and Stations of the Cross to Santa Maria. The pews of the congregation are raised upon foundations of putrefaction. In monumental churches like Westminster Abbey there are no pews. You can picture a Presbyterian minister in some cold church in Scotland facing pews full of glowers. High Church, Low Church, good preacher, good music, comfortable pews? If we sit in the pews ho-humming the obviousness of a moral lesson, then it's time to consider that we've turned a multilayered koan into mere allegory. Find more words! 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