Witnessing

Examples

• He would save himself from witnessing again such permitted, encouraged attentions. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I have had my eye on her several times since you withdrew yours; and I have had the honour of witnessing a little spectacle which you were spared. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I have seen my young family, and Mr. Pardiggle, quite worn out with witnessing it, when I may truly say I have been as fresh as a lark! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is needless to say that witnessing the ordinary slow and costly procedure would put Edison on his mettle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In reality we are witnessing a change of conscience, initiated by cranks and fanatics, sustained for a long time by minorities, which has at last infected the mass of the people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He would be depressed for many days after witnessing a death-bed, or hearing of any crime. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This is unwarrantable conduct, sir, said the stranger, and I must call the box-keeper, if you hinder my whole party from witnessing the performance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Witnessing these things, the collegians would express an opinion that the turnkey, who was a bachelor, had been cut out by nature for a family man. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Emile Roux said that Pasteur's agitation at witnessing the slightest exhibition of pain would have been ludicrous if, in so great a man, it had not been touching. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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