65 Verbs to Use for the Word pulpit

They drove a moderately thriving business at the place until permission was unwittingly given for a Mormon preacher to occupy the pulpit just oncea circumstance which resulted in a thorough break-up; many of the body liking neither Joe Smith nor his polygamising followers.

Uncle Peter made no answer, but, ascending the little pulpit, he put his hat on the bench behind him where it was used to repose, took out his red cotton handkerchief and blew his nose in his accustomed way, and looked about him.

Never had so dense a throng been gathered within its walls; all were too closely packed to be able to move; and when at last Savonarola mounted the pulpit he looked down upon a solid and motionless mass of upturned faces.

In addition to their itinerating labours, they gradually filled the pulpits thus left vacant in the chapels.

He has not had full time to studyhe feels quite unprepared, and enters the pulpit with a halting step, and a choking fear of failure at his heart.

But when the sermon commenced her large dark eyes were riveted on the clergyman as he gave out the text so well known to her: "I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son"; and though the sermon was half an hour in length, her gaze never left the pulpit.

caperuza, f., pointed cap, pointed hood, hood. capilla, f., chapel; maestro de , choir-master, one who composes and directs church music; mayor, main chapel (containing the pulpit and high altar, and in most Spanish churches opposite the coro and separated from the transept by a railing).

This was in 1848, and about this time a plain, homely, broad-hearted "Lancashire chap," named Thomas Haworth, a block printer by trade, and living in the neighbourhood of Accrington, who had taken to preaching in his spare time, was "invited" to supply the Vauxhall-road pulpit.

He reached the pulpit stairstook two steps at once.

had exchanged pulpits with the regular clergyman.

The members of the choir sit downstairs, in a square place fronting the pulpit; the young menin their quiet momentslooking very pleasantly at the young women, the older members maintaining a mild equillibrium at the same time, and all going off stiffly when singing periods arrive.

In front of the prayer wall still stands the stone pulpit from which the moulvis of the fortress preached and intoned the daily prayers; but neither the prayer-wall nor the mosque have withstood the attacks of time as bravely as the tomb.

When they took Constantinople they had no respect for either churches or tombs, and desecrated even the pulpit of the Patriarch.

Nay, fearing that he might not relate his adventure to you, in that discourse I somewhat pounded the pulpit.

English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PULPIT AND PRESS (6TH EDITION)*** E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Tom Allen, Josephine Paolucci and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Transcriber's Note: The spelling "diapson" occurs in our print copy in the article from the American Art Journal.

It has a restored church, which preserves a pulpit of Charles I.'s time (1633), and a tub font.

He has taken the first floor of a good house, and appropriates three rooms opening one into another for a meeting-house, placing his pulpit, which is on wheels, in the doorway, so that when the meeting hour is over he can put the pulpit aside and make the rooms his dwelling.

But how small and rude the pulpit and pewslooking like rough-boarded potato-bins!

She considered it great presumption on Avery's part to be upset by such a matter, and her attitude said as much as she walked with a stately air down the church and commenced her own self-appointed task of decorating the pulpit.

no doubt is powerful even without a pulpit; but that is no excuse for erecting a pulpit to proclaim it.

A fortnight after he entered the family, his own mother invades the pulpit of the Orthodox meeting house, and delivers an anathema against her sect.

We could not exactly see the force of lighting the pulpit when nobody ever went into it; but others in the place might, for there are shrewd men amongst them, and they may have found out some virtue in lighting gas burners when they are not wanted.

The idea is, to remove the pews entirely, converting them into what are called 'slips,' to lower the pulpit, and to raise the floor, amphitheatre fashion.

He is free from vulgarity, and in general style miles ahead of many preachers in the same body, whose great mission is to maltreat pulpits and turn religion into a rhapsody of words.

But another roaring wave of humanity dashed over them, sweeping them farther from Ruth and nearer the pulpit.

65 Verbs to Use for the Word  pulpit