How can I believe at second hand, from the word of one whom I discern to hold so lax notions of evidence?
In the list of such writers, who give us literature at second hand, the names of Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb and Thomas De Quincey are written large.
She portrayed life not as she had seen and known and loved it, but as she found it reflected at second hand in the works of other writers.
Sidenote: THE CALL OF BOOKS] This first call was presently neglected for the more insistent summons of literature; and thereafter Longfellow's inspiration was at second hand, from books rather than from nature or humanity.
It was not known to Prescott, who quotes it at second hand in Gomara.
If this is done, however, it appears that his investigation was far from deep, and that with original material within his reach he rarely or never used it, but took the record at second hand.
A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.
The queen will probably be put on second hand, and you will remain with the best.
It is generally less advantageous to lead through a strong suit, unless you are sure that the second hand is not very strong, and that the fourth hand is weak.
A Second Hand declaration in this position may point out to the opponents their safest route to game, and is not apt to prove of material benefit, as with such hand, eleven tricks against a No-trump is extremely improbable.
Second Hand silence is not now regarded as golden, but there is still some question as to the amount of strength required to make a declaration advisable.
Defn: A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.
Independent seconds watch, a stop watch having a second hand driven by a separate set of wheels, springs, etc.
Having conspired against Robineau, the "second hand" in his department, he succeeded him, only to be conspired against in turn by his own subordinates.
The cause why the remarks in the text are so brief in regard to Rothe is, that the writer has not been able to see his more important works, which are out of print; and accordingly he derives his knowledge of him at second hand.
But this truth cannot be received at second hand; it is an intuition.
As he confesses in the Essay on 'Books,' his learning is second hand; but everything sticks which his mind can appropriate.
We get what we know mainly from Peter Martyr, who tells us that Cabot called the region Baccalaos, and from Ramusio, who reports at second hand Sebastian's account, made forty years after the event.
There is a little at second hand, but of small importance, in a letter of Simon Verde printed by Harrisse.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "second hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
