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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. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context "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. A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context 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. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context More results

References in classic literature

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.

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context

"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.

A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

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