All 3 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- CHAPTER XVI ALL SAINTS' AND ALL SOULS' On a week-day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in the mouldy nave of a church called All Saints', in the distant barrack-town before-mentioned, at the end of a service without a sermon.†
Chpt 16-18
- At last he did turn, and stalked resolutely down the nave, braving them all, with a compressed lip.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- The spacious ends of the building, answering ecclesiastically to nave and chancel extremities, were fenced off with hurdles, the sheep being all collected in a crowd within these two enclosures; and in one angle a catching-pen was formed, in which three or four sheep were continuously kept ready for the shearers to seize without loss of time.†
Chpt 22-24
Definition:
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(nave) the central area of a church