pew

• But it seems that there will be something of a crowd, and as your pew is always half empty-- He would not have asked except that there seems nowhere else Aunt Anne graciously assented But, of course, Mr. Warlock, Maggie will be going with us, but still there will be room. —  The Captives
• It will be a nervous hour for our pew, though we hear that he acquits himself with as much ease and collectedness, as if he had been used to it all his life. —  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
• This pain came upon him as he entered the church; and as he went up towards his uncle's pew, and saw the crowd of Crofton boys all looking at him, and some of the poor people turning their heads as he passed, to observe how he got on, he felt covered with confusion, and wished that he had waited one more Sunday, when the Crofton boys would have been all gone, and there would have been fewer eyes to mark his infirmity. —  The Crofton Boys
• None of these things restrains her from taking that quiet walk up the aisle and occupying that seat in the corner of the pew, there to dismiss all thought of worldly care, and fit her good little soul for the pleasures of real worship, and that prayerful meditation and sweet communion with holy things that only such good little women know the blessings of;--none of these things at all. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
• Keils pew was in front, the Maam pew was at least seven rows behind, in the shadow of the loft, beneath the cushioned and gated preserve of the castle. —  Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure

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