Abnormally, unpleasantly sharp and suspicious; with a cleverness which takes no account of tact or politeness, he questions you as though you were in the witness-box and he a criminal barrister trying to trap you.

The butler stepped forward, mounted the witness-stand, and bowed his head deferentially towards the judge.

As he took the witness chair, and prepared to meet the cross-examination of the district attorney, a solemn hush settled upon the room.

(In Christian witness songs) © 6Jun30; A32851.

A witness tree.

catch me those grave thieves, About whose frocks the fragrant leaves, Sticking and fluttering here and there, No false nor faltering witness bear.

Witnesses balloon ascension.

She began by giving a variety of Scripture references illustrative of the nature and different forms of Christian witness-bearing.

"Now, gentlemen, you have all seen the plan which this tainted witness declares was drawn by him because Birchill terrorised him and stood over him while he drew it.

The greater part of the ancient fabric being composed of oak of the hardest kind, it emitted little flame, but became after a time red hot, and remained in this glowing state till night, when it resembled, as an eye-witness describes, "a mighty palace of gold, or a great building of burnished brass.

Arb. Be you my witness earth, need I to brag, Doth not this captive Prince speak Me sufficiently, and all the acts That I have wrought upon his suffering Land; Should I then boast!

The contrast of the weak and the strong is one of his favourite artistic effects, as witness Booz endormi, La Confiance du Marquis Falrice.

I from a witness fain had heard, Where, how, and when my husband died and was interr'd.

I propose to make the amount of a witness fee out of this case, at any rate.

My only purpose is truth, and my only witness history.

And let me humbly speak My faith, that Art is nothing to the act, Lowliest, that to the Truth bears witness meek, Renownless, even unknown, but yet a fact: The glory of thy childhood and thy youth, Was not that Thou didst show, but didst the Truth.

Thus Satan bears witness perforce against the vanities of Venus!

How could you stand silently by, and witness proceedings that would put to blush the Arab, or the untutored inhabitant of the wilderness in our own country?

The Plaintiff and Defendant take their places, and some thirty witnesses file through the gangway to the witness-room to be out of Court.

So that in the bread there remaineth nothing but a heap of accidents, as witness ruggedness, roundness, savor, touching, and tasting, and such other accidents.

Their Dispersion spreads these Witnesses thro' all parts of the World.

I have this on the authority of a witness de visu et auditu, a friend of his and mine, who visited the great man, not a fortnight ago, in his retreat of Brusuglio, near Milan.

These acts of robbery were generally accompanied by the most savage insults; it was anarchy, as we heard an eye-witness affirm, who also stated that no law was recognized except that of danger, and the vanquished were granted nothing but the inevitable duty of bowing with resignation to the iniquitous demands of that soulless rabble, skilled in crime.

Dante is the eye-witness and ear-witness of that which he relates.

Almost concealed from view among the clustering buildings of the place, it is well adapted to give weight to the tradition; but it may not, perhaps, even now be too late to raise a generous incredulity as to an assertion of which no eye-witness attestation is recorded, and which might have been the invention of malignity.