Witnesses

Examples

• Important witnesses; saw you in a delicate situation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I wish you both to be there as witnesses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• That the tragical fate of Tom, also, has too many times had its parallel, there are living witnesses, all over our land, to testify. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She and those stars seemed to me at once the types and witnesses of truth all regnant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The witnesses were stupid and unreliable and contradictory, as witnesses always are. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He is understood to be in want of witnesses for the inquest to-morrow who can tell the coroner and jury anything whatever respecting the deceased. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the parliamentary inquiry in 1764, the witnesses stated the price of the choice pieces of the best beef to be to the consumer 4d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the presence of the two witnesses, I gave him the dose, and shook up his pillows, and told him to lie down again quietly and wait. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You shall steal the Diamond, unconsciously, for the second time, in the presence of witnesses whose testimony is beyond dispute. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Edward tried to return her kindness as it deserved, but before such witnesses he dared not say half what he really felt. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Do you propose calling witnesses? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In this matter of the Moonstone the plan is, not to present reports, but to produce witnesses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was arranged that more witnesses should be summoned, and that the London solicitor of the deceased should be invited to attend. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Amy Curtis March Witnesses: Estelle Valnor, Theodore Laurence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• None of my witnesses seemed certain of anything except the young woman. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The Vengeance and Jacques Three vied with each other in their fervent protestations that she was the most admirable and marvellous of witnesses. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• History can be all things to all men: nothing is easier than to summon the Terror, the Commune, lynchings in the Southern States, as witnesses to the excesses and hysterias of the mob. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At least you cannot escape from these two witnesses; and they can produce you before any public authorities, or before hundreds of people! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was necessarily one among the witnesses summoned to assist the objects of the investigation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Find the door where the witnesses go in, and show the door-keeper this note for Mr. Lorry. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And you can be one of the witnesses, Drusilla, when I sign my Will. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompanied them to the court. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Set your hand to a statement of truth and facts, and repeat it before witnesses? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Be you witnesses, and he took the star, insignia of office, from his breast, and threw it on the table. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Absolute democrats can also line up their witnesses: the conservatism of the Swiss, Wisconsin's successful experiments, the patience and judgment of the Danes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There the judges are face to face with the experts and other witnesses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She has been so good as to ask me to be one of the witnesses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There was a space beneath this for the signature of the farmer who bought, and the agent who sold, and two witnesses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I want you and the Countess, Fosco, to be witnesses to a signature--nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The walks were, one and all, solitudes; and the birds and the bees were the only witnesses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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