A wick coated with aromatic wax burned in the brass bowl on a tripod and cast a crystal clear light down upon the exedra and the delicate lectern with its rolls of parchment and brass cylinders from which they had been withdrawn.
He led her to the exedra, unslung his wallet and laid it on the lectern before them.
A marble exedra built in a semicircle sat in the farther end, facing a chair wholly of ivory set beside a lectern of dull brass.
The woman by the lectern and the singer on the rostrum had chosen.
He snatched up the golden lectern pulpit, hurled it back into the comer, and moved the little table with its vase of roses into its place.
He was reading from the old Bible that rested on the same goldenlectern pulpit Gordon had hurled behind him that awful day in their history.
Even his ritualistic tendencies began to be toned down: the lectern was seldom made use of, and the white surplices were dispensed with for the boys of the choir.
Prestonby took the thick-barreled gas pistol from the shelf under the lectern and shoved it into his hip pocket; Yetsko picked up a two-and-a-half foot length of rubber hose and tucked it under his left arm.
One would as soon look for or expect a till, to say nothing of one of those terrific machines known as cash registers, in the vestry, the classroom or the study as one would look for a lectern or an adjustable school desk in a beer-house.
The windows of the shop to the left (as you faced the lectern and the vestments) displayed school furniture and school fittings bearing the characteristic "F.
This treasure was preserved in a binding of cloth-of-gold sewn with pearls and rubies, covered with the richest red silk, and placed on a lectern of aloe-wood with nails of gold.
Immediately in front of the chancel rail and facing inward towards the centre aisle are the elevated seats of the choristers, with the pulpit and lectern on opposite sides and at the outer edge of the choir-stalls.
The lectern is the one exception, and I have had it straightened and lacquered into a new thing.
There was nothing but the saw for these, and Carlton had already sawn the lectern from its grave.
The second hymn was another of Gwynneth's favourites; she could not afterwards have said which, for in the middle Mr. Carlton knelt, and then came forward to the twisted lectern at the head of the aisle.
The lectern he had done his best to burnish; but it was still a cripple from the fire.
It was as a midnight sea frozen in mid-storm, the twisted lectern alone rising salient like a mast.
So he set himself to retrieve the lectern from the ruins, and did finally wheel it to the rectory, on two barrows; the first broke under its weight.
However, he would have an inscription to the effect that it is the same lectern which was in the fire, which is quite a sufficient advertisement of the fact.
In the small and distant light of the lectern lamp he stood gazing at the damask hangings, the green frontal, the silver candlesticks, the flowers from his own garden--the flowers he grew for this.
And that is why he looked at them, worrying them with his glance, and frequently turned his eyes to the place behind the lectern occupied by Ivan Porfyritch Koprov, the churchwarden.
The magnificent brass lectern was given by Provost Hacombleyn, at the opening of the chapel; but the present altar is a very modern addition, having been only put up in the twentieth century.
Yet another point of interest in this church is the eagle lectern, an exquisite piece of mediaeval brasswork, so good, indeed, that it has been copied in the lectern of Ely Cathedral.
Accordingly, now the lessons are read in the church from a lectern that has an owl's body with an eagle's head.
At the same time he presented an owl as lectern to Ashburton Church, the owl being his badge.
This referred to a copy which was ordered of a rarely beautiful lectern at St. Albans' cathedral, which had been made by the "incomparable Walter of Colchester.
On a certain Sunday in 1667, one of the precentors named Barrin found a huge lectern placed in front of his stall.
Many brass tombs had been melted up with the lectern some years previously.
In the choir, round the lectern were piled ancient psalm books, some of them three feet high, their calfskin covers strengthened with metal claspings.
Above the lectern was the little lamp and an icon of Christ in His crown of thorns.
There was nothing in it but the bench on which she was sitting, the book-shelf above it, and a lectern in the corner.
No, it was only my imagination,' he assured himself, and he went to the corner where his lectern stood, falling on his knees in the regular and habitual manner which of itself gave him consolation and satisfaction.
Opposite the lectern are two sixteenth-century panelled wooden stalls, with round finials, all bearing the same device on both sides--a Tudor rose with I.
The lectern or prie-dieu, which in Crivelli's picture and in very many others of the subject stands beside the Madonna, is a refinement on the earliest type as seen in Duccio and Fra Angelico.
But whether with lectern or without, the Virgin is always represented with a book engaged in her devotions.
While this work was in progress he executed a lecternfor Monte Oliveto, ordered by the abbot Barnaba Cevenini, who was a Bolognese.
The lectern in the same church, which is well inlaid and finely carved, was made by Battista the Bolognese, Ambrose the Frenchman, and Lorenzo.
An elderly lady at the brass lectern inquired, "Is this the clerk's seat?
Then he had gone up into the lecternand said that he would tell them something about Blekinge.
The children sat by the little desks and raised their hands; the teacher sat in the lectern and looked displeased; and he himself stood before the map and should answer some question about Blekinge, but he hadn't a word to say.
Giovanni has painted, while Brunellesco is said to have designed the lectern in the sacristy.
This lectern once graced a chapel in the great church of Evesham; and the figure pourtrayed is Bishop Egwin, the first Abbot, to whom we owe the beginnings of the great and powerful Abbey.
He filled the stage, so to speak; when he went to the lectern the effect was the same as is produced on a full house by the entrance of the "star," and once again the silence was felt to be a subtle form of applause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lectern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
