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Meanings of high pews in English

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Usage of high pews in English
1
There were some high pews up and down the sides of the room.
A Dozen Ways Of Love
2
The church I preached in had high pews, which prevented my seeing the occupants.
From Death into Life / or, Twenty Years of my Ministry
3
Her white face spoke week by week to the dalesfolk as they sat in their high pews.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
4
The floor was covered with high pews.
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reube...
5
They were inside the church now; a small and very old-fashioned church, with high pews, dark and sombre.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891
6
It was put up in the seventeenth century, when the whole place was full of those old-fashioned high pews.
A Popular Schoolgirl
7
Manning had been removing the high pews from a church in Brighton, and putting in open benches in their place.
Eminent Victorians
8
But he could not help the thought that the galleries were a little too gaudily painted, while the high pews in them astonished him.
The Marquis of Lossie
9
It is fitted with high pews of dark varnished oak, and the English liturgy, slightly altered, is still used as the form of worship.
The Englishwoman in America
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