1 Close by him was the great pulpit, there were two plain golden crosses attached to its little round roof which were lying almost flat and whose tips crossed over each other.
2 lay his hand in one of these gaps and cautiously felt the stone, until then he had been totally unaware of this pulpit's existence.
3 would certainly not have noticed this little pulpit if there had not been a lamp fastened above it, which usually meant there was a sermon about to be given.
4 looked down at the steps which, pressed close against the column, led up to the pulpit.
5 With a little swing, the priest went up into the pulpit with short fast steps.
6 As everything could now be done openly he ran - because of curiosity and the wish to get it over with - with long flying leaps towards the pulpit.
7 The priest lowered his head down to the balustrade, only now did the roof over the pulpit seem to press him down.
8 A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit.
9 The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.
10 However, hat and coat and overshoes were one by one removed, and hung up in a little space in an adjacent corner; when, arrayed in a decent suit, he quietly approached the pulpit.
11 At my first glimpse of the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship, these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary.
12 Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture.
13 Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
14 Its drawl was an echo of the quays of Dublin given back by a bleak decaying seaport, its energy an echo of the sacred eloquence of Dublin given back flatly by a Wicklow pulpit.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 15 In one of the benches near the pulpit sat Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Kernan.