I know not what my love inspired me to say in that solemn moment; but I called God to witness that you should escape suffering, and that your life should be happy!
He is the One Who beareth witness unto Me at all times and beholdeth Me ere the inception of ‘after Ḥin’.
I have praised Thy sanctity through Thine Own Self before the dwellers of the heavens and the earth, bearing witness that Thou art indeed the Indescribable, the Inaccessible, the Immeasurably Glorified.
I bear witness that Thou Thyself alone art the sole expression of Thine attributes, that the praise of no one besides Thee can ever attain to Thy holy court nor can Thine attributes ever be fathomed by anyone other than Thyself.
Yield ye praise then unto Him and glorify Him and bear ye witnessto the sanctity and oneness of His Being and magnify His might and majesty with wondrous glorification.
Thy vision is obscured by the belief that divine revelation ended with the coming of Muḥammad, and unto this We have borne witness in Our first epistle.
Thou seest, O my Lord, my dwelling-place in the heart of this mountain and Thou dost witness my forbearance.
These utterances are revealed according to your measure, not to God’s, and unto this beareth witness that which is enshrined in the knowledge of God, did ye but know.
Verily, the One True God beareth Me witness that in this Day I am the true mystic Fane of God, and the Essence of all good.
I bear witness that there is no God but Thee, inasmuch as Thou art invested with sovereignty, grandeur, glory and power which no one among Thy servants can visualize or comprehend.
These and other cases in which we are led to discern very primitive witness behind Acts, do not indeed give to such witness the value of shorthand notes or even of abstracts based thereon.
He is the author of a life (1604) of St Antony of Padua, and versions of two odes of Horace bear witnessto his taste and metrical accomplishment.
In spite of its florid and bombastic style, it is of considerable value as a record (on the whole impartial) of events of which he was either an eye-witness or had heard at first hand.
But the opposition subsided somewhat on the publication of Tsar Nicholas's congratulations to the king on his engagement and of his acceptance to act as the principal witness at the wedding.
The nature of the readings themselves, and the distribution of the witness for them, alike point to a process involving several stages and several originating centres of diffusion.
But it so chances that there is still another witness on the charge of treason, whose testimony deals also with the abduction.
It would be foolish to say I am willing to die; I love life as well as any man; yet bear me witness that I meet my doom as becomes a Peer of England.
The dead child was privately buried; the living one, together with the nurse that was the sole witness of the birth, was abducted.
Dreadful to witness was the sorrow of the orphan girl.
Our lawyer joggled him, and then he looked up startled, and says, "Take the witness if you want him.
Tom he went on thinking, and never took no notice; so our lawyer took the witness and done the best he could, and it was plenty poor enough.
In Bilaspur a kind of sham fight takes place between the parties, which is a reminiscence of the former practice of marriage by capture and is thus described as an eye-witness by the Rev.
Another witness put the amount at one to two rupees a day, remarking, 'We are great persons for eating and drinking, and we keep several wives according to our means.
First, we have the activities of the mind during sleep, when the man seems to go out from himself, to converse with his friends, to witness strange scenes, and to have many wonderful experiences.
When disease amounts to long-continued insanity all of these effects are greatly exaggerated, and make a deep impression upon all who witness the phenomena.
In Hebrew, the rainbow is the witness to a covenant.
You are like the last witness upon the stand--subjected to a vigorous cross-examination upon everything gone before.
Evidence that he does so work can be presented ad infinitum, upon Southern testimony; witness that De Bow's Review makes only a few selections.
How it was that Ben got that ball up from the ground and kept his feet no witness could tell.
Then came a surprise as the lawyer said: “The next witnessfor the defense will be William Piper.
I was not the only one who gave him the straightforward facts; an eye-witness of the whole thing had spoken to him about it before I mentioned it.
These boys came in sight soon enough towitness the end of the encounter between Stone and the huge mastiff.
The judge rapped for silence, requesting the witness to endeavor to tell his story in the simplest language he could command.
All travelers agree that, when you do not witness the preparation, couscoussou is a toothsome and attractive dish, fit to be set beside the maccaroni of Rossini.
May never witness tell, That once again on English ground Was wrought that deed of hell!
Heaven is my witness that, if I hesitate now, it is because I would not listen to my own selfish heart.
He was a passive witness of the enormities, and allowed the mandates of the Church to supersede the dictates of humanity and the merciful teaching of the Saviour.
The case for the *Gesta Francorum* as a text composed by an eye-witness is inferential only.
His desire to correct is complicated by the competitive urges that emerge when he faces the other apparently eye-witness account of the First Crusade that became available to him, Fulcher of Chartres' Histori Hierosolymitana.
As it happened to be a fine day, the School turned out in force to witness the match.
The duke tipped John magnificently and asked him to spend his exeat at Trent House, and to witness the Eton and Harrow match at Lord's from the Trent coach.
A native boy named Pablo, about eight years old, was in the house at the time, and in his terror squeezed himself into a narrow space behind the door and escaped discovery, although he was an eye-witness of the crime.
Herr Jagor, who was much amongst them, bears witness to the strict decorum of their households, whilst he very justly says that the behaviour of the native clergy leaves something to be desired.
They are careless in handling them, and I was eye-witness of an explosion of fireworks during a water fete, on the passing in front of the governor's palace at Malacanan, when a number of people were killed.
I declare that on none of those many occasions did I ever witness anything scandalous, or indecorous in their convents, and I arrived at all hours and without notice.
I have been a witness of this, and have even remonstrated with a judge for so doing.
Some of the victims had died under torture rather than bear witness against their friends, for the Tagal is a Stoic after the manner of the Red Indian.
The foul criminal believes himself secure, because there was no witnessof the fact.
He alledged as witness here of Charmides son of Glauco, who asking his advice, whether he should exercise at the Nemean games; as soon as he began to speak, the voice gave the accustomed sigh.
This was avowed to me by an eye witness then in the house.
But it is said that we have thewitness Paul speaking to us directly in the Epistles.
I am afraid there is no man alive whose witness could be accepted, if the condition precedent were proof that he had never invented and promulgated a myth.
Well, it is hard upon Eginhard to say so, but it is exactly the honesty and sincerity of the man which are his undoing as a witness to the miraculous.
There is nothing to conflict with the supposition that this eye-witness .
At the present day, if I tendered myself as a witness on that score, the judge would tell me to stand down, and the youngest barrister would smile at my simplicity.
As we accept, or repudiate, such histories as that of the possessed pigs, so shall we accept, or reject, the witness of the synoptics to such miraculous interventions.
How fortunate we are, too,' I returned, 'to have arrived towitness their happiness in that intended marriage!
My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!
Madam,' returned Mr. Micawber, 'I trust you will shortly witness an eruption.
I bound myself by the required promise, in a most impassioned manner; called upon Traddles to witness it; and denounced myself as the most atrocious of characters if I ever swerved from it in the least degree.
Abonyi looked sharply at him; the witness bore the gaze quietly and began to speak.
The lawyer for the defence rose and informed the court that the witness was a servant whom Abonyi had discharged.
His disgust must needs explode into some rudeness of speech, if he remained to witness these vagaries.
He is willing that there should be no witness but you.
