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Sentences starting with witnesses

Witnesses differ, but the majority say that she struck thus. [7]
Witnesses had heard him quarrelling with the murdered man, and the next day the body of the victim had been found by the roadside. [11]

Sentences ending with witnesses

They are prejudiced witnesses. [5]
In order to understand this quarrel, which was not by any means appeased by this truce, and to determine Captain Smith's responsibility for it, it is necessary to examine all the witnesses. [4]
Hamilton gently attempted to undervalue their testimony, but he was instantly put down by the Dutch justice, who suggested that Mr. Hamilton could not be aware of the age of the witnesses. [4]
It is fearful to think how our characters are probably being lied away by innumerable pen scratches in secret repositories, which may some day come to light as unimpeachable witnesses. [4]
She will deny that hair-pin before a hundred witnesses. [5]
The padrona, a Spanish officer and I were the witnesses. [10]
Mr. Zeb Meader, pale but determined, was surrounded by a knot of Mercer neighbours, many of whom were witnesses. [9]
Officers O'Flannigan and O'Flaherty, witnesses. [5]
Nothing is lost of the sharp wrangle of the counsel on points of law, the measured decision's of the bench; the duels between the attorneys and the witnesses. [5]
On three different occasions they quarrelled, and were separated by witnesses. [5]

Short sentences using witnesses

The witnesses discreetly turned back. [4]
Other witnesses confirmed this one. [7]
Call the witnesses. [5]

Sentences containing witnesses two or more times

She called no witnesses, saying she would content herself with examining the witnesses for the prosecution. [5]
It is true that my witnesses were quite willing to depose that his actions were queer and out of the common, but these witnesses were for the most part venerable farmers and backwoodsmen: expert testimony was deplorably lacking. [9]
Upon the last point the witnesses agree, that the starboard wheel was running after she struck, and no witnesses say that it was running while she was out in the draw flanking over. [7]

More example sentences with the word witnesses in them

The old woman would not be likely to have another such favorable opportunity of supplicating the all-powerful man who stood before her, without the hindrance of witnesses, to exercise his magnaminity and clemency towards her son. [10]
You are all witnesses, But you all hear me--I will punish the murderer of the wretched sick! [10]
There were my witnesses, but I could not use them. [5]
The complainants had witnesses who testified under oath what they had heard in taverns and tap-rooms from Sir Seitz Siebenburg and those who repeated his tales. [10]
A great many witnesses were introduced and examined, but I shall only mention those whose testimony seemed most important. [7]
For hours Philip's witnesses were examined, among them the officers of his duchy and Count Carignan Damour. [11]
Then come the witnesses to character, and here Mr Brass's gentleman shines again. [12]
I know their witnesses say that there are cross currents--that, as one witness says, there were three cross currents and two eddies; so far as mere statement, without experiment, and mingled with mistakes, can go, they have proved. [7]
Eye and ear witnesses had reported that, notwithstanding his Majesty's positive orders to avoid her old home, she had entered the house and the knight's apartments, knelt beside his couch, and even kissed his weak, burning hand with tender devotion. [10]
No special proceedings were required, since he was his own accuser, and many trustworthy witnesses deposed that he had been most grossly irritated--nay, as his advocate represented, had wounded the tailor in self-defence. [10]
Among the witnesses were Paula and the new bishop, as well as Gamaliel, who had been sent for soon after Mary had left him. [10]
Several important witnesses were mysteriously lacking, and two or three school-teachers had suddenly decided--to take a trip to Europe. [9]
Logs, floats, boards, various things the witnesses say all show the same current. [7]
Anatole, with uniform unbuttoned, walked to and fro from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the study to the room behind, where his French valet and others were packing the last of his things. [2]
The law requires two witnesses; the testator and the witnesses must declare that they sign in the presence of each other. [4]
Yet have we two witnesses to attest them, the prose and the pictures, both in his own book; and it soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds that he alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them. [4]
He had witnesses to these facts. [5]
I stand prepared to bring thirty reliable witnesses to prove that Putnam's famous feat at Horseneck was insignificant compared to this. [5]
To listen to those witnesses lie about each other on the stand is better than the theatre. [9]
Several witnesses swore they heard Judge Driscoll say in his public speech that the twins would be able to find their lost knife again when they needed it to assassinate somebody with. [5]
They camp there, they attend the trials, they take sides; half of them, perhaps, are witnesses, for the region is litigious, and the neighborhood quarrels are entered into with spirit. [4]
When Gorgias entered, these magistrates, their clerks, and the witnesses accompanying them--a group of twenty men, at whose head was Apollonius, a distinguished officer of the royal treasury--were in the house. [10]
Among other witnesses, there is one who had a 'jumping toothache,' which several times tempted her to 'believe that there was sensation in matter, but each time it was overcome by the power of Truth. [5]
Among other witnesses there is one who had a "jumping toothache," which several times tempted her to "believe that there was sensation in matter, but each time it was overcome by the power of Truth. [5]
I noticed that the witnesses were treated with unusual consideration, being allowed to sit down at the table opposite the little justice, who interrogated them in a loud voice. [4]
The witnesses prove the will, or, if they are dead, their signatures can be proved. [4]
The witnesses of the plaintiff seem to think it was only necessary to say that the pier formed an angle with the current and that settled the matter. [7]
Two witnesses for the mock marriage--Khvostikov, a retired petty official whom Dolokhov made use of in his gambling transactions, and Makarin, a retired hussar, a kindly, weak fellow who had an unbounded affection for Kuragin--were sitting at tea in Dolokhov's front room. [2]
The witnesses of the event had told it over so many time that they had worked it up into a most dramatic scene, and embellished it with whatever could heighten its awfulness. [5]
The sand of the desert and the unfruitful waves of the Red Sea were the only witnesses of the deed; and no creature knows thereof beside thyself, O King, thy servant Prexaspes, and the gulls and cormorants, that hover over his grave. [10]
And what was the declaration which that whiterobed old man among the witnesses desired to make--the venerable and learned Horapollo? [10]
Every detail of the damaging circumstances that occurred in the graveyard upon that morning which all present remembered so well was brought out by credible witnesses, but none of them were cross-examined by Potter's lawyer. [5]
The improved 'limitless-distance' telephone was presently introduced, and the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussible, too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues. [5]
But as the tailor insisted that the matter would permit no delay, he invited him to step aside with him, in order not to make the councillors who were with him witnesses of the unpleasant discussion. [10]
The meetings in St. Louis are connected with this case only as some witnesses are in it, and thus has some prejudice added color to their testimony. [7]
Wait for witnesses, so that it can look like the real thing. [11]
Many of them shook their heads when they spoke of Mr. Cooke's great-uncle, and some knew more of his private transactions than I could have wished, and I trembled lest my own witnesses should be turned against me. [9]
Second, said commissioners shall have power to examine witnesses upon oath, and to take such proofs orally or in writing, upon the subject-matters of investigation as they may deem expedient, and return the same together with their report. [7]
Then when she rose to depart from him, he had sent his serving-man to bid Master Holzschuher, the notary, to come to him, and to bring with him two trustworthy witnesses duly sworn to secrecy. [10]
But he said rest easy, rest easy and collect the witnesses, for the victory was just as certain as if the conflict were already over. [5]
The prosecution then put upon the stand the other witnesses of the shooting at the hotel, and the clerk and the attending physicians. [5]
Nilus undertook to procure legal sanction and the necessary sixteen witnesses to this transaction. [10]
And his brother's pretty quiet, and them four witnesses that lied so and got paid for it, they're pretty quiet. [5]
Yet I had precedents of my own whereby I had set aside that law on two different occasions and thus succeeded in convicting criminals to whose crimes there were no witnesses but themselves. [5]
There are several places where he disappeared, each vouched for by credible witnesses, so that the horror of the scene is multiplied for the tourist. [4]
There were some pathetically suggestive dumb witnesses present. [5]
Blushing at his own weakness, he averted his eyes from the Queen, and when he met those of Proculejus and the other witnesses of the scene, he realized the abyss on whose verge he stood. [10]
He patted her on the shoulder and said: "Don't do it, dear; remember, there are witnesses, and it is not becoming in the Crown Princess. [5]
I therefore demand of you--" and she again turned to the assembly--"that you will fulfil your functions worthily and promote justice in my behalf by calling in both these witnesses and hearing their evidence. [10]
The subsequent examination of witnesses, the eloquence expended on the jury are all for effect outside. [5]
I was one of the witnesses of the first will, and a clerk of Henderson's, who is still in his office, was the other. [4]
Manchon and several of the judges who had been members of our court were among the witnesses who appeared before that Tribunal of Rehabilitation. [5]
It was made of snow-white water-lilies, and, when she placed it among her brown curls, she looked so wonderfully lovely in the simple ornament, that Bartja could not help kissing her on the forehead, though so many witnesses were present. [10]
And a lot of parchments about the chair Are handed to witnesses then and there, And then the lawyers hold it clear That the chair is safe for another year. [6]
An instinctive sense of drama amongst the onlookers seemed to create a hush, as though these had been the unwilling witnesses to an approaching collision and were awaiting the crash. [9]
Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth. [5]
Those who are not present are really witnesses of the scene, and this pictorial and literary triumph is justified in the fact that no other effort of the genius of reproduction is so eagerly studied by the general public. [4]
The latter did not express his opinion in words, but he knew that Octavianus was more readily induced to noble and lenient deeds when there was no lack of witnesses to report them to the world. [10]
There were the names of two witnesses. [4]
I then called my colleague Kandaules and asked him, in the presence of these noble witnesses, if everything was in order. [10]
He said I must take my chances on the witnesses then. [5]
When they tried Mr. Fairoaks, and a cloud of witnesses proved him to be--well, you know what they proved him to be--and his own testimony and his own confessions gave him the same character, what did Congress do then?--come! [5]
But can these men's testimony be compared with the nice, exact, thorough experiments of our witnesses? [7]
However eloquent they may be, they are needless witnesses. [10]
There are too many witnesses against him here for him to want to stay. [6]
All the witnesses made written record of the immense historical birth --the first justification of a line of movable type by machinery--and also set down the hour and the minute. [5]
He examined witnesses, made arrests in every quarter, and created a consternation in the camps of the saints greater than any they had ever witnessed before, since Mormondom was born. [5]
When the prisoner left the dock, and the crowd began to disperse, satisfied that justice had been done--save in that small circle where the M'Mahons were supreme--Crozier rose with other witnesses to leave. [11]
It was a lazy summer day, and an awfully long one, and the witnesses were tedious. [5]
And when that lawyer was done telling the jury what he was going to prove, he set down and begun to work his witnesses. [5]
Meantime that other lawyer got up excited and began to protest against allowing new witnesses to be brought into the case at this late stage. [5]
As it was late, he would ask leave to defer the examination of his three witnesses until the next morning. [5]
When Paulus at last arose, he perceived with surprise and alarm the witnesses of his devotions, and approached Agapitus to kiss his robe. [10]
Why was he in the yard of a burning house where witnesses had seen him? [2]
You will not in any case detain the crew of a captured neutral vessel or any other subject of a neutral power on board such vessel, as prisoners of war or otherwise, except the small number necessary as witnesses in the prize court. [7]
This was done in a few minutes, and the priests were witnesses of the most painful, scene which had occurred for years in their quiet sanctuary. [10]
At the gate he had permitted Pollux to greet his parents, and had gone alone into the palace to open his bargain with the architect without the presence of witnesses. [10]
Above forty witnesses have proved the storm; and sooth one might have had a thousand, for all had reason to remember it, sith all had suffered by it. [5]
On the other hand, reputable witnesses had had it often from Mr. Pardriff that he was a reformer, and not at all in sympathy with certain practices which undoubtedly existed. [9]
After the witnesses had taken the corpse to the leech Otto, in the Ledergasse, and the latter said that the youth was dead, they had quickly dispersed, fearing a severe punishment on account of the breach of the peace. [10]
He intended to go to the Netherlands with her, but one of the witnesses betrayed them--denounced them to the Holy Inquisition. [10]
Soon after Hans Geppert, who meanwhile had become a notary, arrived with two witnesses, odd-looking fellows who belonged to the working class, and I made my will in due form. [10]
The General asks for the proof of disinterested witnesses. [7]
If you ask for my witnesses, yonder they lie, on the road we have come. [5]
The unfortunate man's fellow-workmen could give no news of him whatever, for not one of them had been present when he was seized; Papias had had foresight enough to have the man he dreaded placed in security without the presence of any witnesses. [10]
History is never done with inquiring of these years, and summoning witnesses about them, and trying to understand their significance. [5]
I had no counsel and no witnesses. [11]
Next, after taking council with himself, he went to the treasurer's office, and there, with the assistance of Nilus, made his will, to be ratified and signed next morning in the presence of a notary and witnesses. [10]
Besides, no doubts could be raised concerning the validity of a will attested by sixteen witnesses. [10]
Several witnesses deposed concerning Potter's guilty behavior when brought to the scene of the murder. [5]
They appoint a committee to investigate, and that committee hears evidence three weeks, and all the witnesses on one side swear that the accused took money or stock or something for his vote. [5]
That Dowdall's old clerk, over eighty years of age, should have never heard of it (though he was sure enough about the butcher's apprentice) and that all the other ancient witnesses should be in similar ignorance! [5]
Before such matters can be settled here in Egypt we must have plenty of time, and papyrus and ink, a grand law court, sixteen witnesses, a Kyrios. [10]
Half of the buildings, as Mr. Hutchins pointed out, were closed,--mute witnesses of tariff-tinkering madness. [9]
Let it be borne in mind that Adams made this statement--has himself furnished two witnesses to prove its falsehood, and does not attempt to deny or explain it. [7]
He has not been tried because, in the state of military operations at the time of his arrest and since, the officers to constitute a court martial and for witnesses could not be withdrawn from duty without serious injury to the service. [7]
He himself had been present one day of the sittings of the court-martial when one of the witnesses on the prices of mules was that same seedy man with the straw-colored mustache who had bid for Virginia's piano against the Judge. [9]
The case had been dragging along from year to year, like an English chancery suit; and while courts and lawyers and witnesses had been sleeping, the property had been steadily growing. [6]
The twins themselves became witnesses in their own defense. [5]
All this would be proved by unimpeachable witnesses. [5]

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