Exempel på pew

• With pews filled beyond capacity and comfort, 600 demonstrators would be forced to crane forward in order to listen from the market square.

• It is also clear that proximity to the pulpit was one of the defining characteristics of a prestigious pew.

• His hypocritical misuse of money is perhaps best embodied by his purchase of a front-row church pew.

• It is the custom there to hand the alm's plate in the pews.

• Similarly, administering communion with congregants seated in their pews and using individual glasses arose from practical concerns for efficiency and hygiene.

• Pulpits and pews were allies in this work, wooden partners in an enterprise that was given life by their respective occupants, preachers and parishioners.

• In the former case they are brought out by bickering concerning church pews, in the latter rivalry between local families of gentry led to public disorder.

• It is like denouncing those who have come to church for the empty pews.

• The politics of the pew are known to fellow members of the congregation and in more exalted circles.

• There is a question, for example, of the pulpit, and of the heating and lighting installations and so forth, and the pews.

• This is the subsection that actually puts church fittings, pews, pulpits, organs, and everything else into the business scheme.

• I regard myself as a reasonably typical man in the pew.

• The only effect is to empty the pews yet further.

• I speak simply as a man in the pew—a man who was in the pew yesterday.

• I suspect that the famous man or woman in the pew would be hard-pressed to say what the difference in function is.