Competent witnesses gravely swore, that pins and needles were run into their bodies, by persons, at the distance of a mile or more.
When the mare has foaled witnesses are again called, and another attestation is drawn up, which contains a description of the foal, with the day of its birth.
In a case which was tried at the Malabar Sessions a few years ago, several witnesses for the prosecution deposed that a certain individual was killed by odi.
All the witnesses agreed about the blunt arrow, and some bore testimony to the sticks.
But as many witnesses had to be heard, most of whom lived in the diocese, the parliament remitted the case to the Courts of Poitiers.
The witnesses were so intimidated that none would speak, and it required all the Royal Authority to reassure them.
He'll confront you with a dozen witnesses who will testify that the Keszmar professor knew very well what his son-in-law's trade was.
When a woman witnesses the sufferings of others it is instinctive with her to try and relieve them, and to be thwarted in the exercise of this faculty is to her a positive pain.
In other cases they are asserted by credible witnesses to have given to the scryer information, about events distant in time or place, that had not come to his knowledge by normal means.
No one was more surprised than himself when he retained the chancellorship in the following administration, and he resisted the proposal to indemnify witnesses against Walpole in one of his finest speeches in May 1742.
Witnesses who saw him write the writing in question, or who are familiar with his handwriting either from having seen him write or from having corresponded with him, or otherwise, may be called.
One of the three witnesses of the king's marriage with Madame de Maintenon, he was hated by her for using his influence with the king to keep the matter secret.
Many, who had before fought under his standards, had been admiring eye-witnesses of his great actions and experienced his magnanimity, came forward from their retirement to share with him a second time both booty and glory.
We have two views of the interior of the Fleet and its general aspect from two eye witnessesat a later date than the exposure of Huggins and Bambridge.
He chafed, not without reason, that at a public inquiry then in progress, neither Chairman nor Committee, witnesses nor pupils gave any sign that they were conscious that such a creature as Haydon existed.
While the hurts were still unhealed they were called upon to proceed to Metz to appear as witnesses at a court-martial, held upon a gendarme supposed to have connived at their escape.
But it so happened, on the very morning of their bridal, that one of the witnesses he selected (a confidential servant of his own) was seized with apoplexy.
The sound of the ship hammer reverberates in all the harbors of France, and every month witnesses the increase of the French fleet.
Mr. Andrew Jackson Allen, who was one of the prominent witnesses in the recent Forrest Divorce case, is evidently an original.
Here let us consider; the people had been acquainted with Jesus, and had been eye witnesses of his miracles; many of them were personally acquainted with Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead.
Those eye witnessesthen wrote what they saw, and if they were honest men they wrote the truth.
When the case came before the Court in 1612, a number of witnesses were called upon to give evidence.
Other witnesses were examined, and old witnesses were recalled hour after hour and day after day, without effect.
On the other hand, many witnesses had testified to the good character and conduct of the prisoner, and the estimation in which he had been held by his late master.
Some of them were the very same witnesses that had been called by the prosecution, and were now re-called for the defence.
You can make your mark--just a cross mark on the paper, with witnesses present--like this.
Furthermore, the defendant, also acting upon my advice, will present no witnesses in his own behalf.
It was at this point that the timorous-hearted among the witnesses turned their heads away.
You do not," said I, "examine witnesseswho are interested?
Our ordinary disputes about property, are commonly settled by arbitration, where, as well as in court, each party is permitted to state his case, to examine what witnesses and to ask what questions he pleases.
The witnesses to the scene naturally asked me what that madman was doing.
Experience has shown that comparatively few people, no matter how honest, are trustworthy witnesses even when conditions for observation are of the best.
It was alive, because several witnesses saw its tentacles moving in a convulsive way.
In particular, he cross-examined the five eye-witnesses of the occurrence so searchingly that they began to doubt the plain evidence of their senses.
There are too many witnessesagainst him here for him to want to stay.
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.
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.
Meanwhile in the messroom I could hear McCalmont calling his wolves to order, and my witnesses went away to hear his talk.
Wall, I happen to know that them witnesses in the Ryan inquest here was bribed to swear away the life of old Balshannon's son.
But the evil one must have possessed me entirely, for when severalwitnesses thought they could please me by swearing Jim's life away, I was a party to their perjuries.
He confessed to perjury at the Ryan inquest, naming the witnesses and the amounts he paid to each.
These witnesses swore on oath that Jim came to the gun-fight attended by Curly McCalmont and ten masked robbers.
The index of Madison's Journal witnessesto the immense amount of work which Pinckney did irrespective of the draught.
Night and silence were the only witnesses of this young maid's disgrace--Matravis fled.
To Indians generally of the great tribes was given the right to be held competent as witnesses[296] in state courts, and, if indicted there themselves, to subpoena witnesses and to employ counsel.
Gains and asked him in the presents ofwitnesses if he was acting as Com.
The work of the twenty-first was on the judicial clauses and, on the question of the qualification of the Indians to be competent witnesses in civil and criminal suits.
Article XXXVI[398] of the Osage Treaty, dealing with the right to subpoena witnesses and to have counsel, seemed likely to create prejudice.
Mark and Luke, who were not witnesses of our Saviour’s deeds, but merely related what they had heard from others; what was the nature of that imparted to S.
The Catholic is confirmed in his faith when he witnesses the piety of Ireland and Belgium; sees the wealth, position, and learning of the children of the church in other nations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "witnesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
