at second hand

It required no action on his part, even at second hand.

I want to have a little talk with them before they start hearing everything about our problems at second hand.

I've spent a lifetime learning and teaching at second hand.

Fm going to have to live with you too, even at second hand.

There were thanks he had to make at second hand, and not waste too much time about doing it.

"I perceived them only at second hand, through your thoughts."

The story is now taken up at second hand.

She was smiling, participating at second hand in the evening to come.

It had been her crippled daughter's lot to enjoy young love only at second hand.

"The testimony of the dead, and at second hand, will hardly be received in court!"

He had heard the explanation at second hand, but lie wanted to hear it from the master.

Yet translating at second hand did not mar the quality of his result.

It permitted him a sense of discovery, albeit at second hand.

We get almost all our wonders at second hand.

It was true that her name was mentioned, but only at second hand.

He only knew at second hand the events leading up to Steve's escape, and was unaware of what had happened since.

She must have gotten her details at second hand.

It'd still be the Tower, if at second hand.

Isobel seemed to like danger at second hand, he thought, and wondered again why she should come.

All were socialist, delighting Peter, who had only known of such people at second hand.

The second is that I have never been married myself, and, therefore, can speak only at second hand.

During their one year vow the Compact members must shop only at second hand stores.

Probably because their fathers had known it and had told them; for one gets most things at second hand in this world.

Even heard at second hand, the ruthless scale of the conflict was enough to bring cold sweats.

When he quotes a book at second hand he takes pains to say so.