69 Metaphors for witnessing

The only witness you have called to the stand to sustain your sinking cause, is the Bible.

The next witness was Dr. Slingsby, the pathological expert from the Home Office who had made the post mortem examination, and who was much too great a man to be kept waiting while other witnesses of more importance to the case but of less personal consequence went into the box.

" The Sub-Inspector perceived that, all the witnesses being tenants of Debendra Babu, there was no hope of getting them to stick to any statement inculpating him.

They speak for tribes in many quarters of the world, and the witnesses are laymen as well as missionaries.

One by one the witnesses were calledthe coroner's physician, the policeman who had arrested Angelo outside the barber shop with the smoking pistol in his hand, the assistant barber who had seen the shooting, the customer who was being shaved.

The first witness against the Little Playmate was old Hanne.

Personal witness to the value of Christian education for women is a real Kingdom message. (7) for training women to take their part in the new national life of awakened India.

From a report of the Coal Commission: "The next witness was Lord Dynevor.

The witnesses were the bride's father and sister, and a Mr. Bilston, a neighbor.

The third witness whom I produce, and not the least important, because an unwilling and most unexpected, and in this case surely a most unsuspected witness, is the honourable member for Westminster (Mr. Hobhouse), who seems to have had particular sources of information as to what was passing at the Congress.

"The witness, or rather witnesses, referred to by the police were two Brighton tradesmen who knew Mr. Morton by sight and had seen him on the morning of the 17th walking with the accused.

"I see, sir," said he, "the witness is William Hope.

The nuptials of Bonaparte and Josephine followed, on the 9th of March, 1796; and the witnesses, besides Eugene and Hortense, Josephine's children, were Barras, Jean Lemarois, Tallien, Calmelet, and Leclerq.

"That witness of yours, the woman Strugnell, is the real culprit.

"The first witnesses called were the two constables, who deposed that, just as the church clocks in the neighbourhood were striking eleven, they had heard the cries for help, had ridden to the spot whence the sounds proceeded, and had found the prisoner in the tight grasp of Lord Arthur Skelmerton, who at once accused the man of murder, and gave him in charge.

But the most interesting witnesses were certainly the two doctors, the maid Tremlett, Campbell, the High Street jeweller, and David Graham.

The first witness was Lord HARCOURT, who said that he had done all he could, both in the House of Lords and in the columns of The Times, where, he was glad to say, large type was given him, to bring the Government to its senses on this matter.

"Witness, on your oath, answer; were you at any time in the evening or night before you departed from this, Our Square, leaving us desolatewere you, I say, abroad in the park? "Y-y-yes, your Honor.

If ever a witness of truth came into the box, that witness was Bogle.'

"The first witness of real importance was Mrs. Chapman, the proprietress of Russell House, whose original information to the police led to the discovery of Mr. Morton.

The evidence is very clear, and has not been shaken; but the witnesses are people of a bad character.

He made appeal to history, and set around the thrones on which these witnesses are seated scenes detached from the actual lives of our Lord's human ancestors.

The most important witness for the prosecution was a man known as James Hill, who had been in Sir Horace Fewbanks's employ as a butler.

The witness on the stand is the real plaintiff here, his are the interests that are at stake, and if he chooses to give evidence adverse to those interests, evidence relevant to the matter at issue, although it may be hearsay evidence, he has a perfect right to do so.

The first witness was Miss Fewbanks.

69 Metaphors for  witnessing