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Meanings of empty pews in English

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Usage of empty pews in English
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The new clergymen preached to empty pews in many of the Covenanted parishes.
Sketches of the Covenanters
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But when I went down the aisle I wasn't conscious of empty pews.
Mary Ware's Promised Land
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Church leaders frequently bemoan the empty pews in parish churches.
The Irish Times
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They will have less empty pews if they have less empty heads in the pulpit.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
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Many priests preached to nearly empty pews on Sunday.
Reuters
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A good minister will fill up our empty pews.
Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish.
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Then he smiled gently down at the half- empty pews.
The Young Lions
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There were no empty pews in Marianella on Sundays.
The Irish Times
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Will Sir Joseph Graybrooke start up and stop it from one of the empty pews?
Miss or Mrs.?
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The electric lights glimmering through the windows of the gable showed the empty pews in sharp outline.
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
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Then it fits right in with the timing of the others. He looked around at the empty pews.
Phantoms
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There are too few practising Christians in the empty pews of this most secular nation to pack cinemas.
The Guardian
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He was alone in the dimness, and he stood in the pulpit and looked around at the empty pews.
Contrary Mary
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A space of empty pews divided them from Mrs. Wesley, standing solitary behind her daughter at the chancel step.
Hetty Wesley
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He raced inside and rounded the empty pews toward the stout wooden door held shut with an iron latch.
The charlemagne pursuit
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Reddish sunbeams track slowly across the dusty flagstones of the temple and drip bleeding from the backs of the empty pews.
The Apocalypse Codex
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Empty pews across language varieties
United Kingdom
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