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first hand

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first hand
if you experience something first hand, you experience it yourself Many reporters based in the capital are experiencing the war first hand. It is difficult to appreciate the scale of the problem without seeing the effects of the famine at first hand.
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This young man had been hired out by his master to work in a bagging factory, where his adroitness and ingenuity caused him to be considered the first hand in the place.
"There is nothing like first hand evidence," he remarked; "as a matter of fact, my mind is entirely made up upon the case, but still we may as well learn all that is to be learned.
In those days my experience of life at first hand was small, and it excited me to come upon an incident among people I knew of the same sort as I had read in books.
 
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