He hesitated, stammered, but got out nothing.

His eyes wandered to the twins and fixed themselves there with a vacant gaze.
"Please answer, Mr.Harkness, you are keeping the court waiting.

It is a very simple question." Counsel for the prosecution broke in with impatience: "Your honor, the question is an irrelevant triviality.

Necessarily, they both kicked him, for they have but the one pair of legs, and both are responsible for them." Wilson said, sarcastically: "Will your honor permit this new witness to be sworn?
He seems to possess knowledge which can be of the utmost value just at this moment--knowledge which would at once dispose of what every one must see is a very difficult question in this case.

Brother Allen, will you take the stand ?" "Go on with your case!" said Allen, petulantly.