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"Yes that is, a good many of the boys were a bad sort," said I, not very comfortable to be undergoing this cross-examination. "I understand. You weren't, of course, eh?" said he, digging me in the ribs with his knuckles. His manner was most offensive. I felt strongly inclined to resent it, and yet somehow I felt that to be civil to him would be the less of two evils.
The cross-examination was brief, and no attempt was made to shake the Colonel's testimony. The next witness was the constable who had gone with a warrant to search Ben's shop. He testified to the circumstances under which the whip was found. "He wuz brazen as a mule at fust, an' wanted ter git mad about it.
This was, after cross-examination, what Herr Schwein managed to comprehend. They had gone to the marketplace as usual, and, to their delight, found it crowded, immediately jumping to the conclusion that the public mind of Caneville was not so utterly degraded as they had begun to fancy it.
Peter, an unmarried man for thirty years, lacking experience, would under cross-examination contradict himself, become confused, break down over essential points. "Really," grumbled Peter to himself one evening, sawing at a mutton chop, "really there's no other word for it I'm henpecked."
Once I pitted a lawyer against a negro witness, held the parties on the cross-examination, and the lawyer was badly beaten. Some of the freedmen can conduct a case with uncommon shrewdness." I cannot urge upon your attention too strongly the importance of keeping an officer in every parish and of providing him with a sufficient guard to command respect and enforce obedience to the laws.
His father broke in again, "It might save a few hours of dodging and cross-examination if you'd tell us who and what she is." "She is known professionally as Anita Adair." So parochial a thing is fame that the title which millions of people had learned to know and love meant absolutely nothing to the Dyckmans.
"Them as goes crooked in big things is like to go crooked in little," said the miller. At about two Sam and Carry were told to go into Court, and way was made for the old man to accompany them. At that moment the cross-examination was being continued of the man who, early on the Sunday morning, had seen the Grinder with his companion in the cart on the road leading towards Pycroft Common.
He will inevitably use all his powers of rhetoric and persuasion to make the cause for which he holds a brief appear true, though he knows it to be false; he will affect a warmth which he does not feel and a conviction which he does not hold; he will skilfully avail himself of any mistake or omission of his opponent; of any technical rule that can exclude damaging evidence; of all the resources that legal subtlety and severe cross-examination can furnish to confuse dangerous issues, to obscure or minimise inconvenient facts, to discredit hostile witnesses.
The young man ended his story, all in a glow of enthusiasm for his exalted motives and of satisfaction with his eloquence in presenting them; then came the shrewd and thorough cross-examination which, he believed, strengthened every point he had made. "On your showing," was Dawson's cautious verdict, "you seem to have a case.
At the long Board of Trade Inquiry in connection with the Railway and Canal Traffic Act and Railway Rates and Charges, in 1889, he was the principal railway witness and was under examination and cross-examination for eight consecutive days. He had a real love for Ireland, was partly Irish himself, his father being Scotch and his mother Irish a fine blend.
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