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Senator?" inquired the judge advocate sharply. "I would, sir," declared Warren firmly. He rose and faced Colonel Andrews. "I respectfully submit to this court that I seriously object to the introduction of hearsay evidence." "And I contend, sir," exclaimed the judge advocate, "that Symonds' testimony is direct evidence. He saw the despatch in Captain Lloyd's hand."
Next to the Koksoak, the George is the best known of the rivers emptying into Ungava Bay, as well as the second largest; but while it has been learned that its source is among the lakes to the northward of Michikamau, it has been mapped only from hearsay. Now if the reader will turn to the accompanying map of Labrador made by Mr.
The bold Burgundians rode to the court right proudly, after the custom of their land. Many bold Huns marvelled much what manner of man Hagen of Trony might be. The folk knew well, from hearsay, that he had slain Siegfried of the Netherland, the starkest of all knights, Kriemhild's husband. Wherefore many questions were asked concerning him. The hero was of great stature; that is certain.
He told her what a terrible shell the Tower of towers had been to break how after throwing its battlemented crown into the moat, they had in vain attacked the walls, might almost as well have sought with pickaxes and crowbars to tear asunder the living rock, and at last but this was hearsay, he had not seen it had undermined the wall, propped it up with timber, set the timber on fire, and so succeeded in bringing down a portion of the hard, tough massy defence.
I see you want to influence the younger generation—to develop them, to be of use to them, and I assure you this trait in your character, which I knew by hearsay, attracted me more than anything. Let us get to the point, though.
Maillot is still here, however; he can speak for himself." "I know that" curtly; "but I prefer to be informed beforehand even if it's only by hearsay. Who is Mr. Maillot?" Again the furtive, wandering look behind the blank of the clean-shaven, ageless features. "I 've gathered the idea that he 's a young lawyer, and that some business affair brought him here to confer with Mr.
There was no bitterness, he thought, in her words; merely a sense of resignation to and acceptance of a state of things not of her own contriving, and not, conceivably, to be of her own undoing. "Judge," she said, "perhaps you know by hearsay at least that since my daughter's marriage she has lived apart from us. Neither my husband nor I ever set foot in the house where she lives.
And now the struggle began. Dick knew well enough, from hearsay, the method of "breaking down" a wild horse.
Granting that the Jesuit account which was of course, from hearsay mistook the use of turf, dry grass, or buffalo refuse for a kind of coal, the fact remains that only the very far western tribes had this custom. Letters of Marie de l'Incarnation. Jesuit Relations, 1658. See Marie de l'Incarnation, Dollier de Casson, and Abbé Belmont. Jesuit Relations, 1660.
To explore the unknown Riff country would be interesting indeed. No book has been written upon it except from hearsay, and no European has penetrated across its length and breadth. The Riffis want no foreign interlopers among their sacred hills, and would "knife" the first who showed his face.
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