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The pulpit cushion, often vigorously thumped by what are termed “rousing preachers.”
“When Gospel trumpeter, surrounded
With long-eared rout, to battle sounded;
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.”
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Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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