What is "witnessing"

Usage examples of "witnessing".

I had no knowledge of human nature, no knowledge of artifice and tricks, and I could not understand how I found myself coolly witnessing such a scene, and composedly calm in the presence of two beings, one of whom I intended to kill and the other to dishonour.

As these remarks could only give pain to the young lady, who listened in silence, I changed the conversation to the enormous crowd which would be present at the execution of Damien, and finding them extremely desirous of witnessing this horrible sight I offered them a large window with an excellent view.

I became aware that Cockle stood just outside our circle, witnessing our words, and those who had started to return to their tents had also halted to watch this play.

He returned to the Witnessing, hovering in a place not unlike trance, though no dreams came to him there.

Germany who took especial delight in witnessing tortures and executions, and related the circumstances attending them with the greatest enjoyment and laughter.

It was for these reasons, your honor, that I concluded that what I was witnessing was a mass rape and not a party.

Often and again have I seen them roll upon the ground in mad fits of uncontrollable mirth when witnessing the death agonies of women and little children beneath the torture of that hellish green Martian fete--the Great Games.

As it happened, the first thing the light lit on was the white and scared face of Alphonse, who, thinking that it was all over at last, and that he was witnessing a preliminary celestial phenomenon, gave a terrific yell and was with difficulty reassured with the paddle.

I suppose that I could issue orders restricting family visitors to my office, so that they would leave without witnessing cohabitation.

Though I met the entrance requirements, being masculine and a widower, I was frankly queasy at the thought of witnessing the rapine that Ingerson had described and feared that I could not do so without interfering.

Even after witnessing it, I still find it incredible that so massive a machine might dive into a square painted on a wall and smoothly disappear without so much as a ripple in car or wall.

While the ladies were wondering, at witnessing such proofs of delicacy and feeling in so singular a place, the girl withdrew.

I have known a pleasure this night, in witnessing the happiness of two young hearts, that God, in his anger, has long denied me.

I entered the room that I was seeing something charged and private and vaguely perverse in actually witnessing the Eddgars in their moment of collaboration.