In this resolution she became so much confirmed, that, withdrawing herself from Madge as far as the pew permitted, she endeavoured to evince by serious and composed attention to what was passing, that her mind was composed to devotion.
She hastily opened an empty pew which happened to be near her, and entered, dragging in Jeanie after her.
The pew was therefore unused except by the vicar when he retired for a while from the turmoil of his wife's activities.
The furniture and fittings of Hailey Compton church deserved the worst that could be said of them, but the vicar would not willingly have removed a pew or erected a screen.
It appeared that nearly all the boards in the floor of that pew were loose.
He rubbed a little of the clay off his hands, laid the floor boards of the pew over the hole and replaced the carpet.
In a deep hole in the middle of the pew he saw the back of the Reverend Timothy Eames bent low over a spade.
They can be piled up in the old pew in the chancel," said Mrs. Eames, "and the curtains drawn.
The Princess of Wales and the Duchess of York occupied the Dean's pew opposite.
Mr. Gladstone attended the wedding, arrayed in the blue and gold uniform of a brother of the Trinity House, with naval epaulettes, and was conducted to the royal pew reserved for him.
Very soberly she walked back to the pew and took her place between grandpa and grandma.
She now and then smiled back toward the back pew where Pete and "the crowd" were sitting.
For the first time in his life, Mr. Carlyle took possession of the pew belonging to East Lynne, filling the place where the poor earl used to sit.
He did not preach because he felt it dishonesty to use terms of doubtful meaning utilized in the pulpit in one sense, understood in the pew in another.
On the opposite side of the aisle is the pew of some other magnate, containing a stove.
The best pew of the church is, of course, that of the Webster family.
But though the references in the sermon to that unhappy object of interest in the front pew were many and pointed, his time had not really come until the minister signed to him to advance as far as the second step of the pulpit stairs.
It was and is the pew nearest to the pulpit on the minister's right, and one day it contained a bonnet, which Mr. Dishart's predecessor preached at for one hour and ten minutes.
My heart sank within me on the following forenoon, when Sandy Whamond walked, with a queer twitching face, into the front pewunder a glare of eyes from the body of the kirk and the laft.
A cushion was allowed to the manse pew, but merely as a symbol of office, and this was the only pewin the church that had a door.
The passage being narrow, his rigging would catch in a pew as he sailed down the aisle.
She had to step forward into a pew near the pulpit, where, alone and friendless, and stared at by the congregation, she cowered in tears beneath his denunciations.
Our pew is well up in front--seems as if I could see it now.
Up in the front pew sat Johnnie, but never a word of the notice did he hear, so busy was he planning out his own little affair.
In the morning to church, where at the door of our pew I was fain to stay, because that the sexton had not opened the door.
In the morning we all went to church, and sat in the pew belonging to us, where a cold sermon of a young man that never had preached before.
There was the royalpew curtained round in ancient style, which long continued to be used by high personages from the Palace.
Here the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the late Duke of Cambridge worshipped; and from this very pew the Duchess returned thanks after the birth of our present gracious and beloved Queen Victoria.
Lake was the first minister, in whose time members of the Royal Family from Kensington Palace rented a pew in the chapel.
A collection was made after sermon from pew to pew towards the organ and church expenses, and the remainder of the Communion Service and the benediction concluded the whole.
It was impossible to repress a reflection on the score that the public reader in the pew and the principal actor in the scene were both during the better half of their days ministers in the Protestant Establishment.
The very next morning I was seen at prayers, seated in thepew of the reigning belle.
The pomp of this pew and the aristocratical air of the family struck My imagination wonderfully, and I fell desperately in love with a little daughter of the squire's about twelve years of age.
He sat with his family in a large pew gorgeously lined, humbling himself devoutly on velvet cushions, and reading lessons of meekness and lowliness of spirit out of splendid gold and morocco prayer-books.
If you see that a pew is full, you know, of course, that you cannot obtain a seat in it without dislodging somebody.
This is far better than to wander about the aisles alone, or to intrude yourself into a pew where you may cause inconvenience to its owners.
Should you (having a pew of your own) ask another lady to go with you, call for her in due time; and she ought to be quite ready.
Endeavour always to be in your pew before the service commences, and do not hurry out of it, hastily, the moment the benediction is finished; or begin visibly to prepare for departure as soon as it commences.
Mr. Hopper, who now shared a pew with Miss Crane, listened as usual with a most reverent attention.
Her pewbeing among the first, he passed very near her.
He beheld Eldon Parr in his pew complacently worshipping that God, who had rewarded him with riches and success--beheld himself as another man in his white surplice acquiescing in that God, preaching vainly .
The white, blue-veined hands that clung to the railing of the pew were thin; and the shirtwaist, though clean, was cheap and frayed.
He turned without a word and marched majestically up the aisle before her to the fourth pew from the front on the right.
I had been to the Hutchinses' church; and Maude, as she sat and prayed decorously in the pew beside me, suddenly increased in attractiveness and desirability.
They tell me Eldon Parr's pew has a gold plate on it.
The familiar figure of Gordon Atterbury was nowhere to be seen, and the Atterbury pew was occupied by shop-girls in gaudy hats.
Will sworn foes swear anew be seated on common pew ?
Do you think that I only took you away from the house of the headsman of Zeb, in order that one stout butcher's wife the more might in course of time sit in the front pew of the Cathedral of Kassa?
