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Eyewitness   /ˈaɪwˈɪtnəs/   Listen
Eyewitness

noun
1.
A spectator who can describe what happened.
verb
1.
Be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes.





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"Eyewitness" Quotes from Famous Books



... will be admitted to the landing site. But you will not be allowed to relay the story to the press until such a time as all correspondents are informed. That won't give you a 'scoop' if that's what you call it, but you'll be an eyewitness. ...
— The Delegate from Venus • Henry Slesar
... together in a heap, a mass of legs, arms, heads—and been hustled across the terrace in a rush of Russians and English, from which he emerged without his hat, umbrella, or book, and after he had been eyewitness of an encounter between Jock Howieson and Bauldie over a misunderstanding in marbles, he offered to teach Nestie ...
— Young Barbarians • Ian Maclaren
... officer died in New York in the fall of 1775, a year before the surrender of Fort Washington, yet his company may be taken as a fair sample of what the riflemen of the frontiers of our country were, and of what they could do. We will therefore give the words of an eyewitness of their performances. This account is taken from the Pennsylvania Journal of August ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge
... the conviction of an eyewitness, and for a time her playmate was silenced. Then, as Bonny had now grown quiet and gave ...
— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond
... appearances of the various strange animals found in that country—the crocodile, the hippopotamus, and the elephant, are described with considerable spirit and fidelity; and even the form and colours of the fabulous phoenix, are delineated with all the confidence of an eyewitness. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. • Various


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