Doubtless it will commend itself to you as experienced men of the world.

You cannot but have perceived that such things are constantly happening in real life, that they are of daily occurrence.

I am almost ashamed to stand up before you and endeavour to rebut a story so plausible and so essentially convincing.

I feel that my task is well-nigh hopeless.
Nevertheless, I must do my best." And so on.
It was one of his greatest feats in the kind of irony that appeals to a jury.

And the audience deemed that the case was already virtually decided.
After Whitney C.Witt and his secretary had been called and had filled the court with the echoing twang of New York (the controlled fury of the aged Witt was highly effective), Mrs.Henry Leek was invited to the witness-box.