Sentence examples similar to second hand bridge from inspiring English sources
Henry V. Darlington, an Episcopal minister in Delaware and nearby Belvidere offered to buy the second-hand bridge for $5,000 (1914 USD, equal to $ today).
Demand for second-hand bridges were not high at the time, and when Henry V.B. Darlington, a local Episcopal minister, put up an offer of $5,000 (1914 USD) for the bridge, DL&W immediately took the money.
Stashing their furs in the closet, popping open a bottle of Lanson Brut that had been sent up by the hotel management, and lighting the wood that had been artfully stacked in the room's fireplace, the women sat down at a square table covered with a green cloth and started playing their first hand of bridge.
Although the commission tried to buy the second-hand railroad bridge for a lower, unspecified amount, Darlington used his strong bargaining skills to raise the amount to $275,000, a far cry from the other local bridges.
Weak players, he says, follow "bridge nursery rhymes" -- and here he waggles his head, reciting, "Second hand low, third hand high, fourth takes if he can" -- instead of looking objectively at what the situation requires.
Merce Cunningham, "Second Hand".
A classic? First hand or second hand?
