1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 39 The admirers of Antiquity have bin beating their brains about their Ambones.

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. vi. 123 The Ambo or reading pew.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) In some churches remains of the Ambos are still seen.

1865 W. M. Wyse T. Wyse's Excursion in Peloponnesus II. v. 133 (note) This Greek mode of preaching from the bema, bears a striking analogy to the use of ambones in the Catholic churches of the West.

1915 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 19 148 The size and shape of the..panel preclude the possibility that it could have served in an ambo.

2000 N. Yates Buildings, Faith & Worship viii. 172 A church with a central altar balanced on either side by two ambos serving as lectern and pulpit.

1974 J. McClure Gooseberry Fool xii. 146 ‘On ambulance?’ ‘Native maternity. Had to wash his ambo out, too, when he got back—hasn't got the touch, y'know.’

1997 D. Simon & E. Burns Corner 54 She hates listening to the gunshots.., wondering if the ambo siren is for DeAndre.

2006 ‘T. Reynolds’ Blood, Sweat & Tea (2009) 8 The London Ambulance Service is giving us poor ambulance staff shiny new ambos to drive.

1990 Sunday Herald (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Sept. The police drag them in manacled, the ambos wheel them in collar-and-cuffed and others walk in by themselves to collapse in your arms.

1998 J. Roy Full Moon Racing 165 One of the ambos sticks his head in the back door and tells us we're going to the hospital just to be checked over properly.

2009 V. Gray Didgeridoos & Didgeridon'ts x. 128 Need an ambulance? Call the ambos!