(1) He chose a pew near the altar and said the Lord's Prayer over and over again until he stopped shaking.

(2) Soon after being seated, down the main aisle to his pew walked Mark Twain, 24 with his big head of bushy hair.

(3) The director was to sit in an enclosed pew at the rear of the church.

(4) The congregation replaced stationary pews with u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Danish modernu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb wooden chairs that could be positioned in any arrangement.

(5) From the pews the congregation looked on with mild affection, perhaps half hearing the weighty words about trust and steadfastness.

(6) There's something about the Christmas season that defies even the most secular of societies and brings out the people to fill up church pews in normally unheard of numbers.

(7) She sat in the church pews waiting for the service to begin.

(8) It is a cold, gray church with hard wooden pews , a miserable place and after briefly walking through it Sonia wants to leave.

(9) When they arrived at the church the pews were filled.

(10) There was nothing unusual about groups of elegantly clad gentleman scuffling unceremoniously in order to place themselves at the head of a procession or to bag the best pews for a church service.

(11) Canon Sue Whitehouse has been under fire over proposals by her and the church council to remove pews , raise part of the nave floor, install a nave altar and introduce a grand piano at St Andrew's Church in Aysgarth.

(12) I miss the days of putting on Christmas plays and pageants for the masses who would huddle in gymnasiums or church pews just to see frightened little kids put on a show.

(13) The nave's interior is warmed by wood pews and window seats and red-oak ceilings.

(14) Hall, who speaks in soft, measured tones, spent most of his life sitting in wooden church pews , hearing about the goodness of God.

(15) There was only a handful of people in the congregation, sitting on pews toward the front of the nave.

(16) Just like every other church, they have pews , pulpits and rooms.

(17) Some traditional churches have no pews and there is never an organ because of the Orthodox belief that only the human voice is permitted in the worship of God.

(18) Eritrean Orthodox Churches do not have pews or chairs; most churchgoers stand for the entire period unless they are elderly or sick.

(19) Due to the pews being boxed, and most of them privately owned, by 1860 there was not enough room for the non-pew-owners to come for worship.

(20) And, they add, it would recognise that the Church is gravitating away from the ailing parishes and empty pews of Europe to focus on vibrant congregations to the south.