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Example sentences for "pulpit"

Lexicographically close words:
pulmonate; pulmonic; pulp; pulped; pulping; pulpits; pulps; pulpwood; pulpy; pulque
  1. On June 20, the archbishop began his visits through the parish of Dilao, causing an edict of the following tenor to be published from the pulpit during high mass.

  2. The sketch of the pulpit (made on the spot by the author) is erroneously stated in the List of Illustrations to be from a photograph.

  3. He makes his way through the crowded aisles, and ascends the new pulpit in the centre of the church, where everyone of the vast congregation can both see and hear him.

  4. The pulpit and staircase are elaborately carved and decorated with statuettes, bas-reliefs, &c.

  5. Ten yards away there rose a temporary pulpit with a back and a sounding-board beneath the open sky; and in it was the tall figure of a young friar, preaching, it seemed, with extraordinary fervour.

  6. There had been a longer pause than usual since the last exulting cry of a sick man healed; and the silence between the cries from the pulpit grew continually more acute.

  7. He ministered to congregations at Bristol, Cambridge, Leicester, and again at Bristol, and became one of the greatest pulpit orators of his day.

  8. True to his principle, he steadily devoted to his pulpit and pastoral work the best of his strength, and always let them have the chief place in his thoughts.

  9. It stood on the left as one entered from High Street, and it had the usual high pulpit at its farther end, with a precentor's desk beneath it, and the usual deep gallery supported on metal pillars running round three of its four sides.

  10. From the pulpit he could look right out into the square, and as he looked he became aware of a hen surrounded by her young family pecking vigorously on the pavement in search of food, and clucking as she pecked.

  11. His "manner" in the pulpit was, it is true, far from graceful.

  12. The shepherd's family occupied a pew at Stockbridge in front of the pulpit and just under the gallery, which ran round three sides of the church.

  13. Unknowingly he was a passionate votary of the art that has now nearly forsaken the pulpit and the council chamber.

  14. Primrose and Parson Adams, both of whom have been fervent in denouncing from the pulpit the evils of the world; indeed, Dr.

  15. He seized it; got himself appointed preacher; and delivered from the pulpit of St. Mary's a virulently Protestant harangue.

  16. Those with flowers go up to the communion and lay them on the form, and those with mosses put them on the font, and those with rushes and ferns begin under the pulpit and come down the aisle to the porch.

  17. A Byzantine pulpit hanging high on the wall, and three old wooden statues in niches, are the only decorations left.

  18. The painted pulpit hangs half falling on the wall, its stairs are gone, and its sounding-board is slanting awry.

  19. Jupiter and Pulpit Terraces are the master-pieces of Nature here; but there are hundreds of other curious and beautiful things to see.

  20. It may be hardly necessary to remark that the idea held by some, that this pulpit dates from the time of James I.

  21. The pulpit is of oak, with scriptural subjects in relief and statuettes.

  22. The pulpit opposite is still later in date.

  23. A huge gilt cock strutted proudly above the restored tower, and a brass tablet near the pulpit declared the restoration to be the thank-offering of two grateful hearts.

  24. Pierre turned round, and was surprised to recognise Father Massias, who had left Father Fourcade in the pulpit in order to accompany the procession.

  25. Father Massias had returned to the pulpit a moment previously; and this time he had devised another pious exercise.

  26. At that moment the white stone pulpit against the rock on the right of the Grotto was occupied by a priest from Toulouse, whom Berthaud knew, and to whom he listened for a moment with an air of approval.

  27. What business had a julep-drinking, horse-riding parson speaking in a Virginia pulpit where only the gospel was known, and that from exponents worth the name?

  28. Now I wanted every Sunday to hear from the pulpit words of consolation and encouragement, similar to those which I had heard uttered from the pulpit by my good and venerable friend, but I was debarred from this privilege.

  29. And then it sent him into the pulpit with a new message.

  30. And one day he came again into his pulpit to find a second card before him.

  31. And once he came into the pulpit to find a card lying before him on which was written this word: "Sir, we would know Jesus.

  32. The man who preaches, whether officially in the pulpit or unofficially in the class-room or study, a high standard of conduct, and is unsuccessful in his own efforts to attain it, depreciates for all the value of religion.

  33. If the parish priest is exposed to the criticism of those among whom he lives, a still fiercer light beats upon the pulpit or the desk of the schoolmaster.

  34. It had not the grand proportions or elaborate decoration of some of the Cairene mosques, neither was the pulpit as handsomely carved or the hanging lamps and ostrich-shells as numerous.

  35. When two of these obstinate old dogs once met before the pulpit they indulged in a whirlwind of fight.

  36. After they are come unto their pulpit they signe their foorfront and breast with the signe of the cross wt that in nomine patris, filij, and S.

  37. I went and heard the Jesuits preach, a very learned fellow, but turbulent, spurred and hotbrained; affecting strange gestures in his delivery mor beseiming a Comoedian then a pulpit man.

  38. Every one rose and made obeisance as he passed along to the stone stair leading to a pulpit projecting from one of the columns.

  39. There was none of the formality that Ambrose was accustomed to at Beaulieu in the great refectory, where no one spoke, but one of the brethren read aloud some theological book from a stone pulpit in the wall.

  40. The pulpit of Throwleigh church is made up of old bench-ends.

  41. It once possessed not only a magnificent roodscreen, rich with gold and colour, but also a fifteenth-century carved pulpit that matched with the screen.

  42. Mr. Blomfield finds the pulpit a safe place for what can hardly be called the courtesies of discussion.

  43. Among the pulpit utterances on Tennyson we note the Rev.

  44. He is a pulpit rhetorician, so he goes boldly and recklessly to work.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pulpit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    balcony; catafalque; companion; dais; desk; emplacement; floor; gallery; landing; parts; platform; podium; pulpit; rostrum; ship; stage; stump; terrace; tribunal; tribune