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They perform religious functions to cause one to feel at peace with God, but they never once bring the power of salvation to the hearts of the pew sitters
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and in the chapel pew, I tell only
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Karen and the old woman sat in the front pew as usual
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Through blurry vision, I see a clean linen handkerchief appear below pew level
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Reynard, now taking a seat on the nearest pew
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"Pew," Galimoto said, sniffing the air around Brice's shoulder
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Aspen carefully and quietly tip-toed to the front of the chapel sanctuary, passing empty pew after empty pew
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interest in the brother seated in the pew behind us
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Jeff Davis rose from his pew, and quietly walked to the front of the church and made an exit with two of his aides by his side
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Instantly he rolled down off the pew on top of her, holding her down with his body, his hands eagerly moving across her tunic top, his face lost in the shadows
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“I feel like this chapel has been … tainted, somehow,” she responded, moving slowly, carefully to the pew she had just been sitting on with Uther
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She took in a deep breath, then lowered herself into the pew
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Each pew was graced with a bouquet of white roses, blue irises and orchids, flooding the church with their fragrance
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He stood at the end of the pew, ashen and holding his hand to his mouth
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I fell onto a pew, one of many that lined the room
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Suddenly Faith Meredith rose in the manse pew, walked up to the pulpit platform, and faced the amazed audience
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Her pew was far back and it occurred to her that whatever Faith meant to do or say would be half done or said before she could reach her
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Una's little pearl-pure face gleamed up at her beseechingly from the manse pew
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Faith and Carl sat alone in the manse pew
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But Jerry hated the manse pew at the very top of the church, under the eyes of Elder Clow and his family
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Meredith had not been so wholly wrapped up in and carried away with his subject he might have noticed the pale little face and hollow eyes in the manse pew beneath
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Then, just before be gave out the final hymn, Una Meredith tumbled off the seat of the manse pew and lay in a dead faint on the floor
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I sat and played the guitar on the barricades and the woman sat on the pew below, embroidering
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I used to sit on the front pew in front of his pulpit taping his sermons on an old clunky recorder, and then drove the cassettes around to shut-in parishioners
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White bows at the end of each pew flowed out to the sides as if holding hands to welcome her
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from Xen and laid him down on the nearest pew
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guided him down in the nearest pew and waited while more
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I just slipped into the pew be
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Inside, no one had called his attention to the fact that he had left his pew without picking up his large Catholic missal
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Horizontally, the blast and the three hundred or so roofing nails wrapped around the plastique were absorbed in the backs and sides of people in the pew and by the wooden bench back itself, but the velocity was still strong enough to drive splinters and nail fragments into the bodies and chests of those behind the pew
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Only after his pew was empty did the Wolf cautiously raise his head to look around
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The room where Nolan’s funeral was going to take place was still fairly empty—there were two couples sitting on the front pew, and the casket was open
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"Find another pew, Private, this one's taken
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"Engler—take a pew
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An usher showed us to a seat, and we walked along the pew, moving to the inside
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B flatulence – singing this way in church will result in the vocalist winding up in the pew
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Now let us go through a few common words used in these ‘things called church’: vestibule, choir, pulpit, pew, baptismal, hymnals, and stained glass
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When he dashed into the great hall of the Basilica, he checked every pew
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As we had suspected on our initial visit to the church, normal attendance wasn’t very large, and most of the congregation sat near the back, leaving my family and me in splendid isolation in our family pew
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crammed into a pew with the likes of the drama queens and their
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A few deacons sitting on a pew behind him
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Her head crashed into the corner of a pew as she came down
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Yet, this Sunday evening as Paul sat in the hard, wooden pew next to his mother and listened to the minister convey a message, which focused on the necessity of the Savior’s birth, he could not help but close his eyes and wish this once joyous holiday would soon become another dust covered page in ancient history
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Charles was not just feeling ill, he was petrified, and struggled in vain to get out of the pew and out of the church
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Charles was lying in the nave, half out of the pew, staring eyes open and mouth agape
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Backing up, Ailia panicked and tripped over a pew
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Edward hobbled down the center aisle and sat in the front pew on the right
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He thought of all the times he’d sat in church services in the front pew next to his mother while his father stood behind the pulpit and preached to his own congregation back in Albany
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He held on to his cane and shuffled out of the pew and limped up the aisle, and the only thought in his mind was that he should have called his father; he should have called him when it all started
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took a pew as the receptionist knocked on a back
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James and I were seated together on a pew in the newly built sanctuary of Lynnhaven Colony United
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your elbows on the pew
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She had arrived early and gone to the small pew that she and Cecilia favored
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) Pull up a pew
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Pastor Rhine stepped off his pulpit, running to the front pew, leaving
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Not for her, that being gathered beneath a hostess's wing and gently shoo'd, in procession, to the family pew in a musty village church
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He walked through the sanctuary and lovingly traced every curve of the wood with his hand; every wall, every pew, every door and every window
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He saw Cassius seated in the front pew with his face buried in his hands
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Since then there had been no intercourse with Glambeck, and the Baroness did not know of the satisfactory turn things had taken at the parsonage till on Christmas Eve, from her gallery in church to which she and the Baron had decided to return on the greater festivals as a mark of their awareness that Herr Dremmel desired to make amends, she beheld during the drawn-out verses of the chorale Ingeborg drop sideways on the seat in her pew below and remain motionless and bunched up, her hymn-book pushed crooked on the desk in front of her, and her attitude one of complete indifference to appearances
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The one he could remember best had him dressed in suit and tie, sitting in a church pew, Cecily to one side of him and a small, dark-haired boy to the other
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“Melissa and I would like to take you out to eat after this, if you would be interested,” he offered casually, returning to the pew beside his girlfriend
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As she set up the camera, in the last pew, she saw a book
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Or a rough pew from a stately mansion that had seated noblemen of old as they gnawed on calf bones, a crackling open fire warming the air, and sleepy dogs under the table
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As the town’s leading citizen it seemed Garret had to sit on the front pew, directly beneath the stern gaze of the priest
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She expressed her irritation this time by pointedly not looking at me, though Ben did shoot me a quick smile from the far end of the pew
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The family that occupied the pew next to him moved to another pew
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John’s Baptism in the pulpit resulted in a corresponding religion in the pew
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on a hard, wooden, pew by the time the whole carnival was over
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Wheatsbetter’s wife and children in the back pew, he saw what remained of the coffee club gang near the front
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If you had come, but two years ago you would have found a Bible in every pew and even more of them stacked up in the supply closet
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She did not very long occupy the Morels' pew
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When Paul and his mother came in the chapel the Leivers's pew was always empty
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At services and the bible study, Thomas sat perched on the edge of the pew
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With his fate sealed, Ronald Reagan sits in a pew at the Bel Air Presbyterian Church
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She’d left her phone sitting on a pew in the church
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There was a special pew set apart for the undertakers, and in this Hunter and the bearers took their seats to await the arrival
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If it had not been for the fact that each of his hearers had a copy of the words - for there was a little book in each pew - none of them would have been able to gather the sense of what the man was gabbling
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"His'n? What does HE want with a pew?"
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I shift in the courtroom pew, a front-row seat granted me by the prosecution
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I lit a candle at the Church of the Baptist and I sat in a pew with my hands folded, periodically assessing the minor damage to my bone-bruised throat
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An usher made room for them on the third pew from the rear
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A 2009 Pew poll shows that scientists in the United States are extremely well regarded, with 84 percent of respondents calling their effect on society “mostly positive
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/ 168 Pew polls and attitudes about scientists: See Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, “Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media” (2009, Pew Research Center)
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One of these was a sturdy middle-aged man—whose long white "pinner" was somewhat finer and cleaner than the wraps of the others, and whose jacket underneath had a presentable marketing aspect—the master-dairyman, of whom she was in quest, his double character as a working milker and butter maker here during six days, and on the seventh as a man in shining broad-cloth in his family pew at church, being so marked as to have inspired a rhyme:
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Charlie couldn’t turn around, though, to verify that he was imagining things, because what if he should see that he was not imagining things, that a homeless man had slipped into the pew right behind him? Or that verily this was the Lord Jesus Christ, come to make him surrender?
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She couldn’t say how long she sat in the velvet-cushioned pew in that cold, darkened church, waiting for an answer
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persuasion that her brother Peter Featherstone could never leave his chief property away from his blood-relations:—else, why had the Almighty carried off his two wives both childless, after he had gained so much by manganese and things, turning up when nobody expected it?— and why was there a Lowick parish church, and the Waules and Powderells all sit ting in the same pew for generations, and the Featherstone pew next to them, if, the Sunday after her brother Peter's death, everybody was to know that the property was gone out of the family? The human mind has at no period accepted a moral chaos; and so preposterous a result was not strictly conceivable
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Casaubon was out of the question, not merely because he declined duty of this sort, but because Featherstone had an especial dislike to him as the rector of his own parish, who had a lien on the land in the shape of tithe, also as the deliverer of morning sermons, which the old man, being in his pew and not at all sleepy, had been obliged to sit through with an inward snarl
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The bells were still ringing when he got to Lowick, and he went into the curate's pew before any one else arrived there
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The curate's pew was opposite the rector's at the entrance of the small chancel, and Will had
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Casaubon came out of the vestry, and, entering the pew, seated himself in face of Dorothea, Will felt his paralysis more complete
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Why had he not imagined this beforehand?—but he could not expect that he should sit in that square pew alone, unrelieved by any Tuckers, who had apparently departed from Lowick altogether, for a new clergyman was in the desk
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Will's glance had caught Dorothea's as she turned out of the pew, and again she bowed, but this time with a look of agitation, as if she were repressing tears
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before she entered the church, she saw him as she had seen him the last time she was there, alone in the clergyman's pew; but when she entered his figure was gone
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I quickened our step; I wanted to get there before the question between us opened up much further; I reflected hungrily that, for more than an hour, he would have to be silent; and I thought with envy of the comparative dusk of the pew and of the almost spiritual help of the hassock on which I might bend my knees
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109 Guess Who’s Corning to Dinner: 22% of Americans Have a Relative in a Mixed-Race Marriage, The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 16 marzo
