Said Vizard, pompously, "The pulpit and the tea-table are centers of similar phenomena. Now I think of it, the pulpit is a very fair calyx, but the tea-table is sadly squat."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
For a man to have money, even in large sums, is not an inconsistent thing. We preach against covetousness, and you know we do, in the pulpit, and oftentimes preach against it so long and use the terms about ``filthy lucre'' so extremely that Christians get the idea that when we stand in the pulpit we believe it is wicked for any man to have money--until the collection-basket goes around, and then we almost swear at the people because they don't give more money. Oh, the inconsistency of such doctrines as that!英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Always, whether in the pulpit or out of it, he is simple and homelike, human and unaffected. If he happens to see some one in the congregation to whom he wishes to speak, he may just leave his pulpit and walk down the aisle, while the choir is singing, and quietly say a few words and return.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Meantime the great church had been silently filling. Its pews were somber with men and its center radiant with women in their fresh Sunday attire. Suddenly a soft rustling spread through the pulpit. All eyes were turned toward the minister now appearing above the pulpit.英文原著 · 《Hans Brinker》
Not so young, but dark, with wonderful eyes and black hair, and his voice would go all through you. I had an awful case on him. I was twelve, and all week I used to think how I'd see him the next Sunday. Say, when I'd get there and he'd be working-- doing pulpit stuff--he'd have me in kind of a trance. "Sometimes after the pulpit scene he'd come down right into the audience and shake hands with people. I'd almost keel over if he'd notice me. I'd be afraid if he would and afraid if he wouldn't. If he said 'And how is the little lady this morning?' I wouldn't have a speck of voice to answer him.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
When the time came, he led me up on to the pulpit platform of the church, just beside and below the pulpit itself, with a reading desk and a big bible and a shaded light beside it. It was a big church, and the audience, sitting in half darkness, as is customary during a sermon, reached away back into the gloom. The place was packed full and absolutely quiet. Then the chairman spoke:英文原著 · 《My Discovery of England》
He left a lucrative career in advertising for the pulpit.美剧 · 《Billions》
If you're stilin this pew when I reach the pulpit, I'm going to be telling all of these people that you are a cheating, lying whore.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
I mean, if you really enjoy talking back to the pulpit, why don't you try at gospel church by the airport?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
- Madam Speaker. - Speaking from the Hill, as vice president, she'll have a public pulpit to discredit your every move. and stack her schedule with state funerals in Southeast Asia.美剧 · 《House of Cards》