The passage being narrow, his rigging would catch in a pew as he sailed down the aisle.

Even then, however, Mr.Dishart remembered that he was not as other men.
White is not a religious colour, and the walls of the kirk were of a dull grey.

A cushion was allowed to the manse pew, but merely as a symbol of office, and this was the only pew in the church that had a door.

It was and is the pew nearest to the pulpit on the minister's right, and one day it contained a bonnet which Mr.Dishart's predecessor preached at for one hour and ten minutes.

From the pulpit, which was swaddled in black, the minister had a fine sweep of all the congregation except those in the back pews downstairs, who were lost in the shadow of the laft.