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hearsay
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  • Since I had neither a driver's license nor a girlfriend, I knew both those things only by hearsay.†   (source)
  • Based on hearsay rather than personal experience?†   (source)
  • But he knew, more from hearsay than from personal experience, that such easy happiness could not last very long.†   (source)
  • Normally it prohibits evidence from being entered into the record—it allows me to rule it inadmissible as hearsay—because the individual in question is deceased.†   (source)
  • If Carrie had not been an only child, we might have at least hearsay reports of dozens of other minor occurrences.†   (source)
  • After looking Roran over, the earl had said, "Lady Nasuada has told me great things about you, my boy, and I have heard much else from the stories my men tell, rumors, gossip, hearsay, and the like.†   (source)
  • Hearsay.†   (source)
  • Like great primitive birds welded up out of iron by hearsay in a land perhaps where such birds once had been.†   (source)
  • Call looked north across the dusty flats, as if estimating in his mind's eye the great rise of the plains, stretching even farther than hearsay, away and beyond the talk of men.†   (source)
  • It did not seem surprising, all these ghost-ship stories, even if they were only elusive hearsay, because we'd been told the night before that waste is the best-kept secret in the world.†   (source)
  • In court, that's nothing more than hearsay.†   (source)
  • No, this is new and, I might add, hearsay.†   (source)
  • That's hearsay."†   (source)
  • Needless to say, the very possibility that it could be true — well, we've got people assigned to finding out and cataloguing info, hearsay, or suspicion about you.†   (source)
  • The ladies pass the time with gossip and hearsay.†   (source)
  • "This testimony was complete hearsay," Gilpin asserted, "and, even though Dr. Madden never fully admitted it under oath, his impressions were highly prejudiced in favor of the blacks and against the Spanish slave owners."†   (source)
  • The defense moves to disqualify this jury on the grounds that they've heard damaging hearsay regarding hags and haglings.†   (source)
  • In any event, what Mike and Ootek had told me was largely hearsay evidence, and this was not what I was employed to gather.†   (source)
  • Hearsay testimony is not admissible.†   (source)
  • I MUST DEPEND ON HEARSAY, on old photographs, on stories told, and on memories which are hazy and mixed with fable in trying to tell you about the Hamiltons.†   (source)
  • We believe that British Intelligence has deliberately spun around Comrade Mundt a mesh of circumstantial evidence— the payment of money to foreign banks, its withdrawal to coincide with Mundt's presence in this or that country, the casual hearsay evidence from Peter Guillam, the secret meeting between Control and Riemeck at which matters were discussed that Leamas could not hear: these afl provided a spurious chain of evidence and Comrade Fiedler, on whose ambitions the British so…†   (source)
  • For the people in "the district," who knew all about him by hearsay, he was the young man from England who hadn't the guts to stand more than a few weeks of farming.†   (source)
  • "There's been a lot of hearsay admitted as evidence.†   (source)
  • "A lot of hearsay—hearsay you didn't object to, Mr. Gudmundsson.†   (source)
  • I was surprised at how hearsay about a socalled miracle could produce so many converts, so quickly.†   (source)
  • Cook had told the judge that any testimony based on statements made to Hill by Danny Hansford would constitute inadmissible hearsay.†   (source)
  • It was all hearsay, you know.†   (source)
  • Nick had the enduring stuff of narrative, the thing that doesn't have to be filled in with speculation and hearsay Of course Matt thought his brother was guilty of emotional delusion.†   (source)
  • We have hearsay from Mr. Hunter.†   (source)
  • We have only skimpy hearsay evidence upon which to lay our foundation in this case, but even this is enough to indicate that a "TK" potential of immense magnitude existed within Carrie White.†   (source)
  • If one chooses to believe the hearsay evidence of Nolan's immediate circle of friends (and to be brutally frank, they do not seem intelligent enough to lie convincingly), then Nolan took this part of the conspiracy entirely out of Christine Hargensen's hands and acted on his own initiative … He didn't talk when he drove; he liked to drive.†   (source)
  • Thus encouraged, Mrs. Fowler plunged willingly into reminiscence, conjecture and hearsay.†   (source)
  • I wondered why it was that this home of his, known to so many people by hearsay, even to me, should so inevitably silence him, making as it were a barrier between him and others.†   (source)
  • It is only hearsay.†   (source)
  • His guide was sleeping somewhere, probably with the mules, a thin nervous creature, who had never been to Las Casas; he simply knew the route by hearsay.†   (source)
  • It would just be hearsay testimony.†   (source)
  • I knew by hearsay that he was the editor of the American Mercury, but aside from that I knew nothing about him.†   (source)
  • In the little I had learnt of him at luncheon, a smattering of hearsay garnered by her ten months ago from the daily papers and stored in her memory for future use, I could imagine, in spite of my youth and inexperience of the world, that he would resent this sudden bursting in upon his solitude.†   (source)
  • That was when I was a child; I know about it from hearsay and tradition.†   (source)
  • There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle reports, rumors, hearsay.†   (source)
  • Not more than one in ten had ever really tried it; the other nine had contented themselves with hearsay evidence and a peep through the door.†   (source)
  • Know nothing of him except hearsay.†   (source)
  • Of course I only speak from hearsay.†   (source)
  • They can only take them on hearsay.†   (source)
  • These were chiefly people from the northern suburbs, whose knowledge of the Black Smoke came by hearsay.†   (source)
  • The movement is, properly speaking, a derivative from Nihilism—though they are only known indirectly, and by hearsay, for they never advertise their doings in the papers.†   (source)
  • Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all over the South-Western "lung"—Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth—at unnaturally early hours; but not a soul had anything more than vague hearsay to tell of.†   (source)
  • He had given up interfering in the affairs of his family for two years now, and knew nothing about them but what he gathered from hearsay.†   (source)
  • But if she was to be the practical woman she had intended to show herself, business must be carried on, introductions or none, and she ultimately acquired confidence enough to speak and reply boldly to men merely known to her by hearsay.†   (source)
  • With the world shut out (except that part of it which would be shut in); with its troubles and disturbances only known to them by hearsay, as they would be described by the pilgrims tarrying with them on their way to the Insolvent Shrine; with the Arbour above, and the Lodge below; they would glide down the stream of time, in pastoral domestic happiness.†   (source)
  • Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,—however it may come, these minds will give it a habitation; it is something to assert strongly and bravely, something to fill up the void of spontaneous ideas, something to impose on others with the authority of conscious right; it is at once a staff and a baton.†   (source)
  • "And now you have seen me," returned the smiling girl, whose unmoved and natural manner proved how little she was thinking of anything more than parental or fraternal regard, "you are beginning to see the folly of forming friendships for people before you know anything about them, except by hearsay."†   (source)
  • Besides he had, before visiting the monastery, a strong prejudice against the institution of "elders," which he only knew of by hearsay and believed to be a pernicious innovation.†   (source)
  • Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it.†   (source)
  • I don't pretend to be intimately acquainted with the mode of living customary in those days at Wuthering Heights: I only speak from hearsay; for I saw little.†   (source)
  • 'By hearsay,' answered Bazarov angrily.†   (source)
  • …rascal in red scarf and green feathers—more needful that my heart should swell with loving admiration at some trait of gentle goodness in the faulty people who sit at the same hearth with me, or in the clergyman of my own parish, who is perhaps rather too corpulent and in other respects is not an Oberlin or a Tillotson, than at the deeds of heroes whom I shall never know except by hearsay, or at the sublimest abstract of all clerical graces that was ever conceived by an able novelist.†   (source)
  • But there from the sill bow'd Fell many a mead-bench, by hearsay of mine, With gold well adorned, where strove they the wrothful.†   (source)
  • I learn from hearsay (for my mother was mortally afraid of firearms) that the hunting of ducks and bears and men is wonderfully interesting, but I am sure that the man who has never hunted a country school has something to learn of the pleasures of the chase.†   (source)
  • Well was she sithence There on the man-throne mighty with good; Her shaping of life well brooked she living; High love she held toward the lord of the heroes; Of all kindred of men by the hearsay of me The best of all was he the twain seas beside, Of the measureless kindred; thereof Offa was For gifts and for war, the spear-keen of men, Full widely beworthy'd, with wisdom he held The land of his heritage.†   (source)
  • I see you want to influence the younger generation—to develop them, to be of use to them, and I assure you this trait in your character, which I knew by hearsay, attracted me more than anything.†   (source)
  • He knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to him; he was delighted to see one close to.†   (source)
  • He only knew about the envelope by hearsay; he had never seen it, and if he'd found it, for instance, under the mattress, he'd have torn it open as quickly as possible to make sure the notes were in it.†   (source)
  • This forsooth on the land hath thriven to few, Of men might and main bearing, by hearsay of mine, Though in each of all deeds full daring he were, That against venom-scather's fell breathing he set on, Or the hall of his rings with hand be a-stirring, If so be that he waking the warder had found 2840 Abiding in burg.†   (source)
  • Then asunder burst Naegling, Waxed weak in the war-tide, e'en Beowulf's sword, 2680 The old and grey-marked; to him was not given That to him any whit might the edges of irons Be helpful in battle; over-strong was the hand Which every of swords, by the hearsay of me, With its swing over-wrought, when he bare unto strife A wondrous hard weapon; naught it was to him better.†   (source)
  • …day the god unleashed its blast.
    And so, dear boy, I made it home from Troy,
    in total ignorance, knowing nothing of their fates,
    the ones who stayed behind:
    who escaped with their lives and who went down.
    But still, all I've gathered by hearsay, sitting here
    in my own house—that you'll learn, it's only right,
    I'll hide nothing now.
    They say the Myrmidons,
    those savage spearmen led by the shining son
    of lionhearted Achilles, traveled home unharmed.
    Philoctetes the gallant son…†   (source)
  • People are telling you lies and hearsay.†   (source)
  • All this I know well myself, more by experience than by hearsay, and some day, senora, I will enlighten you on the subject, for I am of your flesh and blood too.†   (source)
  • But this aggravated him more than before, that she should put so far upon him, and run things such a length upon no other authority than a hearsay; and then, turning to me again, said very honestly, he was afraid we were both undone.†   (source)
  • My talk to thee must be how Benedick Is sick in love with Beatrice: of this matter Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made, That only wounds by hearsay.†   (source)
  • ——As I imagined, therefore, that the fellow must have inserted this of his own head, or from hearsay, I persuaded myself he might have ventured likewise on that odious line on no better authority.†   (source)
  • Look here, heretic, have I not told thee a thousand times that I have never once in my life seen the peerless Dulcinea or crossed the threshold of her palace, and that I am enamoured solely by hearsay and by the great reputation she bears for beauty and discretion?†   (source)
  • I that was a great fortune, and passed for such, was above being asked how much my estate was; and my false friend taking it upon a foolish hearsay, had raised it from #500 to #5000, and by the time she came into the country she called it #15,000.†   (source)
  • "Don't mind that, senor," said Sancho; "I must tell you that my seeing her and the answer I brought you back were by hearsay too, for I can no more tell who the lady Dulcinea is than I can hit the sky."†   (source)
  • This is too near the first hours of my life for me to relate anything of myself but by hearsay; it is enough to mention, that as I was born in such an unhappy place, I had no parish to have recourse to for my nourishment in my infancy; nor can I give the least account how I was kept alive, other than that, as I have been told, some relation of my mother's took me away for a while as a nurse, but at whose expense, or by whose direction, I know nothing at all of it.†   (source)
  • This being my case, I, who had a subtle game to play, had nothing now to do but to single out from them all the properest man that might be for my purpose; that is to say, the man who was most likely to depend upon the hearsay of a fortune, and not inquire too far into the particulars; and unless I did this I did nothing, for my case would not bear much inquiry.†   (source)
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