21.   I was feeling big again until they started passing the collection plate.

22.   I dropped a few dollars in the collection plate that will help fund the Peace Award given by the Harrison County Ministerial Alliance an extremely worthy cause.

23.   It is a real church, with pews and collection plates.

24.   Is he skimming off the collection plate?

25.   It is the least we can do to take up the collection plate in a selfless effort to restore the lifestyle to which they are so accustomed.

26.   It would turn collection plates into slush funds and reduce the pulpit to a political bullhorn.

27.   Nose-blowing occupies your hands when the collection plate is passed at church.

28.   On Monday, the collection plate went around again, with another million dollars or so dropped into it.

29.   Pillow old-timers remember Ted Shawn having a collection plate passed in the audience.

30.   Put an extra few dollars into the church collection plate.