"Cross-examiner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... himself back in his chair. His face lit up, it lost its expression of apathetic fatigue; and his first quick questions showed him a keen and clever cross-examiner. ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... nothing frightens a woman so much as staring at her through spectacles. A barrister in barnacles is a far more formidable cross-examiner than one without. But, to his ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... tone was that of a cross-examiner dragging the truth from an unwilling witness. He put his questions rapidly and sharply, as though at a Court-martial. "So you'd known him before! Did you ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King
... Converse, when he was alone. "From that meeting—to an investigation—from Dodd—to this young man—I have been leaping from crag to crag like a mountain-goat, never stopping to take breath. And here I haven't even been able to find out just who he is—and they do say I'm the best cross-examiner in this state! However, I'll show Symonds Dodd that I'm not to be sneered at, even if I have to hire Patagonians in ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day |
