Amedee's was the only empty pew, and he sat down in it.

Preoccupied with himself, he sat for hours at the organ or wandered among the empty pews.

Daisy also noticed, as she slid into an empty pew at the back, that the church was unusually full of attractive women.

The Cardinal turned and faced the long, wide expanse of empty pews.

But now, a week after Easter, his failure stared at him from the empty pews.

Was it the great stretch of empty pews between us and Martin?

"Uh-" But she had already headed toward an empty pew.

When his row filled up, one of them moved to an emptier pew.

Yet when services began later in the day, hardly 50 people were present, specks among the long rows of empty pews.

On this Sunday, Gretchen went to church by herself and selected an empty pew.