How To Use Prie-dieu In A Sentence

A man was kneeling on the prie-dieu in front of the Shrine of St. Anthony, his face buried in his hands. I’ll Walk Alone
One day I saw a little chamber she called her oratory; there was no furniture except a prie-dieu and a little altar with a cross and some vases of flowers. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The rest were collected by Mrs. Gardner, and they can ordinarily be seen where she put them, at various places throughout her museum-in one of the two chapels, or on a stairway landing, or mounted on top of a prie-dieu.
He spends his days on his knees before a prie-dieu and gazing without speaking out of the window. The White Queen
The hand he leaned upon the prie-dieu wore a ring Cadfael had never seen before. A River So Long

Only the measured ticking of a mantle clock, and perhaps a prie-dieu for private devotions set in a shadowed corner, suggest that time is running out. With All the Time in the World
It was becoming too much for me, and I rose and got the Bible, bringing it back to the prie-dieu with me. Sick Cycle Carousel
At the end of the mass the grand almoner approached the prie-Dieu of the king and presented to him the marriage register of the royal parish, which the cure had carried. Marie-Antoinette's Wedding
In the bedroom, above the bockedy prie-dieu, hung a photograph-portrait of his wife. At Swim, Two Boys
The slats of wood and cloth by the door that his father called a prie-dieu. At Swim, Two Boys
The presence of women in the castle had already made some changes in the furnishings of the chapel, by the provision of an embroidered altar-cloth, and the addition of a green-cushioned prie-dieu for the empress's use. A River So Long
Opposite these, says Patricia, are three chairs and prie-dieux and servers' stalls.
Kneeling at the prie-dieu, I had only a few minutes, certainly no more than ten, to think what I wanted to think and pray what I wanted to pray in this moment I had so long anticipated and so irrationally hoped would never come.
Finally, a large hidden panel descends from the kneehole to become a prie-dieu for the owner to kneel on in prayer.