A shallow receptacle for collection in church.
1 Less in the collection plate means less to subsidize school tuition.
2 Praise the Lord and pass the collection plate , brothers and sisters!
3 What about the time you Vaselined the collection plate at the ten o'clock service.
4 Look, these legal fees are putting quite a dent in the old collection plate
5 The assistant carried around the black-rimmed collection plate .
6 He passes the collection plate at St. George's!
7 He was the man who introduced the kirk into Scotland, but failed to launch the collection plate .
8 One of his duties was to pass around the money bag that functioned as a collection plate .
9 Parishioners may soon have a choice if they're short of loose change to plunk into the collection plate .
10 Not for the salvation of more souls, but to swell the amount of money in the collection plate !
11 His 'doing' should not consist in talking platitudes from the pulpit, or in sending round a collection plate .
12 The collection plate is passed.
13 And Maggie in her childlike simplicity lifted her crutches, and tried rather awkwardly to put them on the collection plate .
14 You would better put your new Worth gown, on the collection plate , Marion, and appear in a morning dress to-morrow night.
15 Elder Frewen, a tall, pale man, with long, sandy side-whiskers, appeared at the door of our pew with the collection plate .
16 Why, say, old man Austin that passes the collection plate would have me pinched if he saw me drop that in it.
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