22 examples of witness-stand in sentences

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

She arose, advanced to the witness-stand, received the oath, and took her chair with a matronly dignity and kindly grace that aroused the sympathy and admiration of all who saw her.

His brightness and enthusiasm were quenched in a moment, and a chill crept up to his heart, as he saw the lady come down from the witness-stand, throw her widow's veil across her face, and resume her seat at the table.

Then he called Simon Craft to the witness-stand.

" An old man arose in the audience, and made his way feebly to the witness-stand, which had just been vacated by Craft.

A young man in short jacket and plaid trousers took the witness-stand.

" "That's all," said Sharpman, quickly; then, turning again toward the court-room, he called: "William Buckley!" Bachelor Billy arose from among the crowds on the front benches, and made his way awkwardly around the aisle and up to the witness-stand.

" Bachelor Billy was leaning forward across the railing of the witness-stand, speaking in a voice that could be heard in the remotest corner of the room, emphasizing his words with forceful gesticulation.

Will you be kind enough to take the stand, Mrs. Burnham?" The lady arose and went again to the witness-stand.

I am thoroughly familiar with the facts, and if I were to go on the witness-stand to-morrow for the defendant in this suit, your hopes and schemes would vanish into thin air.

If this fellow should go on the witness-stand and tell his plausible story, the entire scheme might be wrecked beyond retrieval.

But if the story were true, if it were true, then it should be known; Mrs. Burnham should know it, Mr. Goodlaw should know it, Mr. Sharpman should not conceal it, Rhyming Joe must not be allowed to depart until he had told it on the witness-stand, in open court.

"Ralph," he said, "take the witness-stand.

" Ralph pushed his way up to the witness-stand, and the officer administered the oath.

He has no more right to go on the witness-stand and give voluntary hearsay evidence which shall be adverse to his own interests than he has to give away any part of his estate which may be under the control of his trustee.

He had been considering whether it would be safe and wise for him to go on the witness-stand and deny any portion of Ralph's story.

"I did not go upon the witness-stand to contradict this fairy tale; it did not seem to be worth the while.

I suppose it is expected that I will then re-ascend the witness-stand; but I have determined that when I enter a court-room again I shall appear as a criminal.

Several little children were examined, and these shouted out in the witness-stand, that when the afflicted woman bit her lip in her grief, they were seized with bodily pains, which continued until she loosened her teeth.

She could resolve in an instant to send a drunkard to an institution or take a trip round the world; but on a matter of philosophy of life it was as difficult to get her to commit herself as if she had been upon the witness-stand.

" All other passages claimed in support of the notion of an infallible Bible fail on the witness-stand.

She took the witness-stand with evidences of backwardness and proverbial Bourbon verdancy.

22 examples of  witness-stand  in sentences