Both Uses of
hearsay
in
The War of the Worlds
- 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.†
Chpt 1.14
- These were chiefly people from the northern suburbs, whose knowledge of the Black Smoke came by hearsay.†
Chpt 1.17 *
Definition:
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(hearsay) heard through another rather than directly