Sentence examples for first hand by from inspiring English sources

In New Hampshire, Obama asked supporters: "How many plumbers do you know making a quarter of a million dollars a year?" Meanwhile McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, is taking her critics at first hand by appearing in Saturday Night Live.

Much of the above detail is autobiographical, coming from the "Informations" recorded at first hand by the Scottish poet William Drummond, with whom Jonson stayed at Hawthornden Castle in 1618.

Among the most influential literary critics to emerge from the academy, Trilling admitted late in life that he had once stood "puzzled, abashed, and a little queasy" before the "high artistic culture of the modern age," a discomfort no doubt torqued by sitting at a table next to a man whose mind had been formed at first hand by that culture.

The North Koreans have "consistently outperformed the expectations of the outside world", said Stephen Bosworth, a former American special representative for North Korea policy, at a Senate hearing earlier this year.This outperformance was witnessed at first hand by Siegfried Hecker, a Stanford professor who once ran America's Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Although I have not witnessed it first hand, by most accounts missiles to Gaza bring fire, screams, chaos, and death.

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5 3 5 THE FOURTH HAND, by John Irving.

Week Week List Fiction 1 2 2 THE FOURTH HAND, by John Irving.

She is still an avid reader, and her current favorite is "The Fourth Hand" by John Irving.

The story of four generations of African-American women, from 1834 to 1936. 3 4 4 THE FOURTH HAND, by John Irving.

That Kim Jong Il, North Korea's dictator, has an abiding proclivity for the bottle has now been attested (at second hand) by a senior member of the Chinese government.