pulpit-ledge

Updated: June 26, 2025

Only he counselled his father to do two things: never to preach for more than half-an-hour even if it meant keeping a small American clock going inside the pulpit-ledge; and to obtain a curate, so that the new enthusiasm might not cool and his father verging on seventy, might not overstrain himself.

Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston - Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement