The entire floor space between the benches was taken up by a table finished in a dark stain.
A heavy oak table with benches on three sides took up nearly half the length of the room.
At their meetings the elders and preachers occupied a platform at one end of the meeting-houses, the men sitting on unpainted benches on one side and the women on the other.
Many a fair creature dropped upon the benches with exclamations of delight, while their attendants sought to supply them from the table, to which they had to fight their way.
These together with his otherbenches and his chairs gave sufficient seating accommodation for those who came.
A common wooden desk answered as a pulpit, and instead of pews wooden bencheswere placed in front of the stand.
Won't I laugh to hear de women scream and to see 'em run over benches like scart sheep," said Monster Turner.
In spite of the crowded condition of the room men and women pushed their way to the wooden benches called an "altar," and with tears and groans sought forgiveness.
Some had thrown themselves on rough cots; others were lounging on rude benches which served as seats; the few plain chairs which the place boasted were also occupied.
Into these holes he drove wooden pegs, and thus provided serviceable benches without backs.
There were no backs to the benches to support and relieve us during a rough and fatiguing journey over a newly and ill-made road.
Of course, the three passengers on the back seat were obliged to crawl across all the other benches to get to their places.
Old men, bent and gray, were gossiping from benches and boxes under the awnings.
The park was full of loiterers, two and two, and on the benches under the trees others sat, two and two together.
This room proved to be a bare, bleak place, with benches and yellow wooden chairs, as ugly as a country railway station, wherein a few officers were carelessly lounging about.
There is dancing and singing around the corpses, and benches are arranged "for the ladies," delighted to witness the killing of aristocrats.
Chairs, tables, and benches are converted into weapons," &c.
Here and there were stone benches that seemed black with moss; the walks were bordered with small gloomy-looking and upright shrubs; grass covered one half of the walks, and a green mould the other half.
Two narrow tables, with wooden benches on each side, formed two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory.
In front of our section of the line the company flag was set up, the benches were placed, the scorers took their seats, the platoons were ranged for their turns.
When I hung up and went out, there was the captain just saying good night to the men, and the table and benches would not let me slip by before he turned and saw me.
On benches or on the ground the men sit about the fire, sing, discuss, or chat in groups.
The rest of the population of the court room of Hicks Center were seated upon benches made of split and hewn logs.
But in all the nasal harmonies we whined forth from those hard benches I could not recall one that treated of the voice of agglomerated mankind.
There is a rustling along the benches As of dried leaves raked over.
Its seats were benches hacked and carved like the desks of a country schoolhouse.
Upon the benches piled up along the wall, to leave the middle space free, groups of the less demonstrative citizens of both parties sat discussing the chances of the different candidates.
Now and then you will have a young man on your benches like the late Waldo Burnett,--not very often, if you lecture half a century.
The new generation had outgrown his doctrines, and the Professor for whose hour the benches had filled themselves belonged to that new generation.
I trust the youngest student on these bencheswill not commit the childish error of confounding a presumption against a particular class of agents with a condemnation of them.
Jack Harris seemed to be of the same opinion, for he hastily placed the benches one on the top of another under the ventilator, and, climbing up on the highest bench, peeped out into the passage-way.
In front of this are small tables and rough wooden benches for the accommodation of those who wish to have refreshment.
In order to ease ourselves from the cramped position we have had to maintain in the chair, we get out and stretch our legs, and finally sit down on one of the benches and watch the moving life that passes and repasses in front of us.
You do not seem to be particularly busy just now," we remarked, as we noticed a considerable number of empty benches in the room, all set out and ready for immediate use.
But how about the 'icy horn'--these high and dry benchesup here?
Engulfed amid lofty peaks, a little park lies as level as a billiard-table, and as green, breaking into bluffs and benches northward where the river finds its way down.
In lieu of this, a few wide-verandahed houses and open sheds exist, with several booths made of boughs and evergreens, under which are long tables and benches for the accommodation of those who bring their lunches.
Whisked away past fields of lucerne we were quickly climbing the foothill benches and entering the mouth of the canyon, where the train came to a standstill underneath an ore-shed and alongside of a beer-saloon.
The Chinese mothers sat on benches all round, flushing with pride as their children distinguished themselves, and the Mission ladies sat in front behind the prizes.
No furniture was to be seen except benches and tables, on and around which a mixed, silent company was gathered.
A number of the townspeople were seated onbenches in the spacious courtyard.
Then broke from all the windows and benches a universal shout of congratulation.
The shops of the jewelers, who perform miracles of craftsmanship in gold fliagree and in jade, are especially interesting, the sensitive-fingered artisans working atbenches set in the windows in full view of passersby.
That prince of idlers and of prose spent many an hour on the sunny benches of this square.
The Cabins they dwell in have Benchesall round, except where the Door stands; on these they lay Beasts-Skins, and Mats made of Rushes, whereon they sleep and loll.
The seats were made of boards set on most anything that would hold them, with a few garden benches for reserved seats at the front.
The tent was filled with long narrow tables and had benchesat the sides.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "benches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
