witness-box

A stout and motherly-looking woman bobbed up in the witness-box and began her testimony.

SUICIDE 2010

A man was now in the witness-box, testifying to the boy's good character and giving extenuating evidence.

SUICIDE 2010

The trial came off in June of '91, and it's one of the regrets of my life that I was not present, if only to see stout Bertie in the witness-box, squirming under the inquisition of saucy jurors who didn't know their place, unlike the judge and counsel who grovelled to him something servile, and did everything but tote him in and out of court in a palankeen.

Watershed 2010

We might even work up a second charge against you - indecent assault on the Orient Express, with Kralta sobbin 'in the witness-box!

Watershed 2010

Elspeth likewise: I'd been worried that she might be called as a witness, since on the first night she'd sat as an onlooker, and on the second had for a time taken Lady Coventry's place next to Cumming, but either they'd forgotten about her - or more likely they'd remembered, and had realised that the last thing the trial needed was her drivelling brightly in the witness-box.

Watershed 2010

According to Owen Williams, they'd told him they'd agreed to watch, but now, in the witness-box, they were claiming they'd done no such thing.

Watershed 2010

The poet does not demand our absolute credence, as though he were giving evidence in the witness-box.

The Master Builder 2008

There is a possibility that the minor royal will have to take the witness-box when the case goes to court.

Palace Intrigues Dunne, Dominick 2008

The poet does not demand our absolute credence, as though he were giving evidence in the witness-box.

The Master Builder 2008

Ant. The person in the witness-box would best be suited with a serpent-hissing theme. 246

Symposium 2007