Meanings of unwilling witness in English

King James himself is an unwilling witness to the popularity of tobacco.

It was not the first time that they had handled an unwilling witness.

I stood there, frozen, staring, like an unwilling witness to a car crash.

The unwilling witness went on impenetrably with his work.

He forces it from the unwilling witness, and hears the maddening tale of Cassio's dream.

A short silence, and then the voice said with the deliberate prudence of an unwilling witness:

Of such was that phenomenon, a police spy, who declared himself an unwilling witness for the crown!

But she had the first taste of his true quality in the examination of Dunne- amostunwilling witness.

Thus, he soon found himself in the midst of the white-clad mourners, an unwilling witness to unappetizing customs.

One evening, near Cumberland, Pennsylvania, I was an unwilling witness of one of the worst scenes that can be imagined.

No sudden flame could awake such concentrated heat of emotion as that of which I had just been the unwilling witness.

Squire Cleaves had brought out from the unwilling witness the fact that he wanted, and Dock Vincent was put upon the stand.

An unwilling witness was Sergeant Malloy, therefore the more persistent should be the examination, and after a moment's reflection Archer spoke again:

As for myself, there I sat, lashed to a spar, utterly unable to help myself, an unwilling witness of all that followed.

Some zealous Tories have naturally expressed great satisfaction at finding their doctrines, in some respects, confirmed by the testimony of an unwilling witness.

O, thought I, what cannot be got out of the most stupid and unwilling witness by patience and a judicious use of questions.