The carriage had been drawn as close as possible to the cloisters, and the court was entirely deserted, only the abbess, the sister porter, and a confidential nun witnessing the departure.
Their whole future existence did not depend upon their witnessing this, as did his.
The change from the hospital to the naked rock relieved them from witnessing many a painful scene, as the amputating-table was placed near their end of the ward.
Far from witnessing the extinction of the Reformation in his dominions, the last year of the life of Francis the First was signalized by its wider diffusion.
And he’d be careful about the witnessing and all that.
That is to say, Mr Stephen Devine, that by witnessing this deed and not preventing it you made yourself an accessory after the fact?
This precious rascal, then, had come into Court with a cock-and-bull story about witnessing a crime at Smugglers' Ladder.
Here is a man who testifies to witnessing with his own eyes the perpetration of a deliberate act of murder.
And I have like the painful sensation of witnessing the agony of a healthy and good creature, hugged in the arms of a giant who is slowly suffocating it.
But two hours later we found out that he had been witnessing at S.
Having established the Faith in His Gospel, St. John in his Epistles sternly censures heresy and schism, thus witnessing to the end of time that the charity of the Church must never lead her to countenance false doctrine.
Such blessed results are largely due to these beloved colleagues in labour who never withheld their testimony, but were intrepidly courageous and conscientiously faithful in witnessing against whatever they deemed opposed to the Word.
No wonder that the good St. Paul, witnessing that extraordinary whirlpool of beliefs and practices, new and old, there in the first century A.
I well remember witnessing an instance of this terror during my sojourn on the island when I was shipwrecked there in 1874.
They were astonished on witnessing so great a love of such penitential austerities, in men of such pure and holy lives.
There is, moreover, nothing which makes so great an impression on the people of the world, as witnessing the interior contentment of a truly good man, which is seen in the serenity of his countenance.
What could be expected of a people whose principal amusement is to look coolly upon homicide--who took pleasure in witnessing the slaughter in the arena of hundreds of men fighting against each other, or against wild beasts?
Even the Republicans in Kansas, after witnessing this example, set their faces against the extension of suffrage to women.
It was when, during the war, I was witnessing a heated conversation between a patriotic Republican and a rabid secession Democrat.
Christianity, that is the religion of the Bible, has been dying for nearly three centuries; and during that period, instead of witnessing a general degradation of mankind we have witnessed a marvellous elevation.
We soon approached the magnificent temple, and entering it we mixed with the mighty crowd of angels who were witnessing the rites of worship performed by the elders and beasts before the great white throne.
Their arrival was awaited by eager and expectant crowds thronging the shore, in anticipation of witnessing the landing of the young royal middies.
Occasionally, a smile lighted his hard, muscular, but wasted features, like a gleam of sunshine flitting across a ragged ruin, and betrayed the momentary pleasure he found in witnessing from time to time the vast power the youths discovered.
But this was "wrote sarcastic"; the morbid taste of the public for witnessing dangerous performances is repeatedly rebuked, and as a matter of fact Blondin was forbidden to trundle his child in a wheelbarrow along the tight rope.
While some were witnessing this awful view, Others were anxious as to what they should do, Some it was seen appeared quite romantic, While the poor stall-girls seemed nearly frantic.
As he had seriously canvassed the situation for a couple of years, witnessing the failures of the last two tenants employed by Samuel Holton, Fred gladly availed himself of his advice.
The timid mayor heard it now, looked out upon the lines of marching students, and pulled down his office blinds to avoid witnessing the inevitable collision between town and gown.
The evening before I left, I had the satisfaction of witnessing a negro marriage, which had been delayed a day or two, in consequence of the illness of their master.
It was now my brother's turn to be desperate; and for a moment, I forgot my pain in witnessing his agonies.
He invited the Vestal Virgins to see the wrestlers perform, because, at Olympia, the priestesses of Ceres are allowed the privilege of witnessing that exhibition.
After witnessing these events I could not help asking myself, can a church which sanctions and countenances such flagitious iniquities as I have just witnessed, be a Christian church?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "witnessing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: espial; espionage; lookout; note; notice; observance; observation; regard; respect; spying; watch
