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  • I got a firsthand taste of the athletic campus visitation process, complete with young and attractive "tour guides" who showed me around and made me feel welcome—and wanted.†   (source)
  • I didn't witness it firsthand, but I can tell you with some certainty that this is what happened next: The Sixers had erected a large armored bunker behind Castle Anorak, filled with pallets of weapons and battle gear that had been teleported in by the Sixers before they activated their shield.†   (source)
  • You hadn't even met a Smokey, someone to convince you firsthand that it was a real place.†   (source)
  • His firsthand perspective on the plight of people wrongfully convicted was deeply meaningful to students, who often seemed overwhelmed by Walter's testimony.†   (source)
  • Firsthand.†   (source)
  • On Saturday nights, she would drive home no matter what, because her Sundays in Statesboro started very early and ran very late, as I discovered firsthand.†   (source)
  • My parents had experienced war firsthand, the Great War of 1914-1918.†   (source)
  • She'd witnessed firsthand how far a need for revenge could drive someone.†   (source)
  • BUT I FEEL ONE HAS TO SEE SOMETHING FIRSTHAND TO BE SURE.†   (source)
  • But he sees firsthand how they can be so loosely allied as to be basically ineffectual—they are wretched and filthy; they live in holes.†   (source)
  • The Old Me would have taken a lot of pleasure in a firsthand look at such a complex emotional condition.†   (source)
  • There he prowled up and down the coast tasting firsthand the waves he had only heard about in magazines.†   (source)
  • They'll want to hear about our time on Mars firsthand.†   (source)
  • I know that firsthand, but something tells me my words won't sway Farley.†   (source)
  • Sampsonknew firsthand that many people in the neighborhood were desperate and wouldn't think twice about taking his life.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, on the word Salmon, had gone from closed to open doorways—dark rooms where he wanted to travel firsthand.†   (source)
  • It happened too quickly for me to panic, but I had a firsthand glance of just how dangerous running away with the story can be.†   (source)
  • If you are someone whose father has made his way up in the business world, then you've seen, firsthand, what it means to negotiate your way out of a tight spot.†   (source)
  • George Hyatt, a Navy doctor working with the National Cancer Institute, had experienced this phenomenon firsthand.†   (source)
  • I seriously thought people only acted this way in books, but I'm witnessing firsthand that idiots actually exist.†   (source)
  • She knew that firsthand.†   (source)
  • I decided to go to Virginia to see his farm firsthand.†   (source)
  • You were stung in your first Hunger Games, so unlike most of us, you have firsthand knowledge of the effects of the venom.†   (source)
  • I have put together this report from first-hand interviews with the victims, and as the tale unfolds you will realize that this was not easy.†   (source)
  • During the summers, my grandfather and dad would travel by train to the various mints to collect the new coins firsthand or visit various coin shows in the Southeast.†   (source)
  • He had no firsthand knowledge of mine and I had no firsthand knowledge of his.†   (source)
  • A man had been reading a long war story, as they did then: a firsthand account of a prison camp and a dreadful march, where exhausted men struggled hopelessly, fell behind, and perished in brief orange bursts of pistol fire in the darkness.†   (source)
  • He has seen firsthand my resistance to fire.†   (source)
  • I've seen a nuclear explosion firsthand.†   (source)
  • Edward was never surrounded by crowds of curious bystanders eager for his firsthand account.†   (source)
  • She confessed that she didn't know them firsthand.†   (source)
  • I can say from firsthand experience that those rules of engagement cost the lives of three of the finest U.S. Navy SEALs who have ever served.†   (source)
  • During his own medical education Holmes had seen firsthand how desperate schools were to acquire corpses, whether freshly dead or skeletonized.†   (source)
  • Like most of his generation, Hemingway learned irony early, then met it firsthand in the war as he watched youth meet death on a daily basis.†   (source)
  • Mae knew this firsthand, having been something of a chauffeur to Annie on long rides, throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin and Iowa, to countless and largely meaningless cross-country contests.†   (source)
  • You've seen firsthand how painful a caning can be.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to show you firsthand what an engineer does," he said.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the defendant in a British court has to use primary sources, such as firsthand witnesses and official documents, to prove the accuracy of a published statement.†   (source)
  • They were not, by and large, stupid people, and many had had first-hand experience of such persecution.†   (source)
  • You're preaching to the choir, Langdon thought, having learned the lesson firsthand in Paris a number of years back.†   (source)
  • For it had occurred to me that the proposed trip in the car could be put to good professional use; that is to say, I could drive to the West Country and call on Miss Kenton in passing, thus exploring at first-hand the substance of her wish to return to employment here at Darlington Hall.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Halina was sitting by the radio set trying to tune in to London; she wanted first-hand confirmation of the news.†   (source)
  • I knew firsthand how helpful Elodin would be.†   (source)
  • I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show.†   (source)
  • Those are first-hand accounts from the limited number of survivors who've fought against the Sardaukar, eh?†   (source)
  • With both parents on the premises, the buyer could see firsthand the lineage—although in our case, the father apparently was outside and out of pocket.†   (source)
  • No. In other words, you have no firsthand knowledge of its content—is that correct, Mrs. Heine?†   (source)
  • The residents of the house were terrified, most had seen firsthand what the police and soldiers could do, and in their terror they spoke more to one another than they otherwise might, strangers speaking to strangers.†   (source)
  • She saw a sign for the Antietam Battlefield, something else she meant to investigate and research firsthand.†   (source)
  • You seem to forget, mi amor, that the museum is just five minutes away and everyone shows up there wanting to hear the story, firsthand.†   (source)
  • When he first saw them trudging up and down these hills, which they themselves compared to the surface of the moon, even Farmer, with all his firsthand knowledge of Latin American poverty, felt viscerally puzzled.†   (source)
  • You know first-hand what it's like to be the subject of a media campaign.†   (source)
  • She understood, firsthand, what her clients were feeling.†   (source)
  • Through whispered conversations in an adjacent hallway we learned firsthand what had taken place.†   (source)
  • So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik--that's all ancient history now.†   (source)
  • Many had actually seen the machinery of war in action, and all had felt its awful consequences firsthand.†   (source)
  • I could tell from her expression that she must have firsthand knowledge about the "hard time" part, and I remembered how pale and scared she'd looked when Aphrodite had shown me to our room.†   (source)
  • I witnessed it firsthand, when he offered to give me a tour of the camp.†   (source)
  • Having seen firsthand that the conventional method of data gathering was in this case absurd, Venkatesh vowed to scrap his questionnaire and embed himself with the gang.†   (source)
  • You need to see it firsthand, even live in its midst.†   (source)
  • My mother, of course, knew firsthand the feeling that I would probably experience.†   (source)
  • During his campaigns, when Clinton talked about the character-building life of hard-working Arkansans, Larry knew firsthand what that meant.†   (source)
  • At least I won't have to know about it from firsthand experience.†   (source)
  • However, the Marines on Guadalcanal had not experienced the atrocities firsthand and found them hard to believe.†   (source)
  • "We could have witnessed it all firsthand …. like Hamilton's own episode of Gossip Girl.†   (source)
  • I'd found this out firsthand a few days earlier, when I was in the kitchen with Cora, minding my own business, and suddenly found myself swept up in Jamie's holiday plans.†   (source)
  • To Kara such realities would sound preposterous without having lived them firsthand.†   (source)
  • They had no firsthand knowledge of his alleged closeness to Lettie.†   (source)
  • Fidel Ruiz (on the ground being attended by medical personnel below left) learned firsthand just how fast.†   (source)
  • I moved home from L.A. February before last, quitting the job it had taken me almost a year of miserable internships to get, to make sure firsthand that my family was okay.†   (source)
  • She was old enough to know firsthand that we had, indeed, shot people in the past.†   (source)
  • That has been my life's work, not my banking or my researches, but my first-hand organizing of human life.†   (source)
  • Adams, who was acutely sensitive to the differences between New Englanders and Virginians, having experienced firsthand in Congress the distrust many from the middle and southern provinces felt for New Englanders, had become gravely concerned about the damage to the Cause such opinions and prejudices could have should they get out of hand.†   (source)
  • And that gave me an excuse to see firsthand if the stories, the horrors, were true.†   (source)
  • You've got the fuller picture firsthand.†   (source)
  • In the last several months it seemed that every day I either read, watched on television, or saw firsthand from my neighbor something that related to child abuse, as if there were a sudden outbreak of children being brutalized.†   (source)
  • And he scandalized her with his firsthand knowledge of who was seeing whose spouse down by the railroad tracks, just hours before they showed up at her church Sunday morning.†   (source)
  • It's one thing to be strong in the weight room or in Coach Mick's mat drills, or to do well in sprints and the physical competitions in practice or in the off-season, but it was important for them to see firsthand that I could actually break tackles and run.†   (source)
  • A peripheral part of his mind and consciousness had been with them and experienced firsthand the tumbling blur of sky and sea, the awful glimpse of rocks and ocean rushing up to meet them.†   (source)
  • He made the rounds of Castle Black each day, visiting the men on watch and hearing their reports firsthand, watching Ulmer and his charges at the archery butts, talking with king's men and queen's men alike, walking the ice atop the Wall to have a look at the forest.†   (source)
  • He knows firsthand the ravages of neglect and substandard living conditions.†   (source)
  • Is it your own first-hand conclusion that I am a man of high mind?†   (source)
  • As a young man, Robert MacNeil experienced this at first-hand.†   (source)
  • I saw that firsthand, too many times.†   (source)
  • But then, Henry, I imagine that you know these difficulties firsthand.†   (source)
  • This firsthand information about the Underground Railroad, by a woman who had served as one of its conductors, thrilled that first audience before whom she spoke.†   (source)
  • But that had been so long ago; Red was the only one left alive with any firsthand memory of it.†   (source)
  • It's not like anyone has firsthand experience, and scientists can't decide if you would spend weeks floating past the event horizon before being torn apart or soar into a kind of maelstrom of particles and be burned alive.†   (source)
  • Every man who had heard the tales, but not witnessed firsthand the splitting of Heafstaag's great axe, was anxious to see the weapon in action.†   (source)
  • He notes that Plato wrote the Apology within a few years of the trial and must have expected many of his readers to have firsthand knowledge of the trial.†   (source)
  • It irked Mrs. Poole that she did not have first-hand knowledge of my mother's family as she did everyone else's in Fulton.†   (source)
  • She was old, and life up here wasn't easy; Lou had certainly experienced that firsthand.†   (source)
  • This reporter is now able to give you a first-hand view of the horror, the shock, and the waste.†   (source)
  • I mean, like, you saw evil firsthand.†   (source)
  • Thus it was at her bedside when I was twelve or thirteen that I heard firsthand about Drusilla and Lucinda, and camp meetings, and turkey shoots, and sewing bees, and river-boat excursions down the Pamlico, and other ante-bellum joys, the sweet chirpy old voice feeble yet unflagging, until at last it gave out and the gentle lady went to sleep.†   (source)
  • I heard the great propeller turning, but it was now a distant sound, and the pilot no longer was sweeping low for a firsthand look at my body.†   (source)
  • From some firsthand reports I've heard, I believe that he has used guided missiles against warships sent after his brigands.†   (source)
  • Each selected comrade will spend three weeks attending Branch discussions, studying progress in industry and social welfare and seeing at first-hand the evidence of fascist provocation by the West.†   (source)
  • Thomas had witnessed them all firsthand, having crossed paths with Cranks on more than one occasion.†   (source)
  • It's a little different, seeing the action sequence firsthand.†   (source)
  • She was the only one with first-hand knowledge of the interior.†   (source)
  • Firsthand accounts of the fair were sparking heightened interest.†   (source)
  • Then one night I experienced the soldiers' wrath firsthand.†   (source)
  • He'd seen firsthand what Bill's belt had done to Gage when they'd been kids.†   (source)
  • And it would not ring yours either if you ever saw firsthand what these guys are capable of.†   (source)
  • He thought most of them — had turned up in the hopes of hearing Harry's story firsthand.†   (source)
  • Even though I know that pain firsthand, I can't bring myself to feel sorry for her.†   (source)
  • He now knew he was going to learn firsthand.†   (source)
  • I saw firsthand how big they were during the flashbacks of the war on Lorien.†   (source)
  • I had the chance to see their work firsthand.†   (source)
  • The Prince shrugged, as if to say he had heard something of the sort, but wouldn't know firsthand.†   (source)
  • The more firsthand accounts we heard, the more we began to realize what was happening.†   (source)
  • Everyone had heard of American airpower, but they had net seen it firsthand, like this.†   (source)
  • Now get away from me or I'll show you firsthand what sort of trouble my kind can be."†   (source)
  • By the shadows behind his eyes, I can tell Maven knows this firsthand.†   (source)
  • I knew now, firsthand, what jihadist hatred was.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he'd seen the Underworld firsthand.†   (source)
  • So I do need access to her to do a first-hand evaluation of her condition.†   (source)
  • She could attest first-hand that there was a powder keg inside him.†   (source)
  • Charlie had witnessed firsthand the struggle that Miles went through after Missy died.†   (source)
  • I'm a firsthand source, and also the link between Lisbeth and Dag and Mia.†   (source)
  • Max had seen demonic possession firsthand.†   (source)
  • Percy understood firsthand just how much strength that must have taken.†   (source)
  • I knew that firsthand, and I figured a sword in the face wouldn't feel too good.†   (source)
  • I'm witnessing firsthand how a little fame can ruin a person.†   (source)
  • I prefer to have firsthand experience to share.†   (source)
  • Jason wasn't too fond of firsthand poison either, but he decided not to mention that.†   (source)
  • Almost immediately, Easy was experiencing this truth firsthand.†   (source)
  • But, though Jasper was getting it firsthand, he didn't seem as certain.†   (source)
  • You're a living piece of history, and I'd surely love to hear about that collapse firsthand.†   (source)
  • They had not known Adams or Jefferson, or their "heroic times," from firsthand experience.†   (source)
  • I'd seen firsthand what Vlad Menshikov could do.†   (source)
  • After three months of frustration, she was finally going to get a first-hand look at Hunter Brown.†   (source)
  • Or was I a sadist, someone who secretly enjoyed their torment and wanted to witness it firsthand?†   (source)
  • She heard the house scream," I cried, for I was quite aware of Sukeena's firsthand report.†   (source)
  • They're not even the apostles' firsthand accounts of the word of God.†   (source)
  • Do you know of your own first-hand knowledge that I spend my life running after women?†   (source)
  • No. He said I deserved to hear it firsthand.†   (source)
  • I've heard the screams in the Fields of Punishment firsthand.†   (source)
  • When I lived with the Volturi, I met two immortal children, so I know firsthand the appeal they had.†   (source)
  • "I told them you were all right," my mom said, but she sounded like the weight of the sky had just been lifted off her shoulders-and believe me, I know firsthand how that feels.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, it was as though they were hoping he would get angry and start shouting again, so that they could hear his story first-hand.†   (source)
  • I spent a day bicycling scenic State Road A1A along the Atlantic Ocean so I could report firsthand on the harrowing proposition of sharing the pavement with confused blueheads and distracted tourists.†   (source)
  • Senator Simpson knew firsthand that you cannot judge a person's full potential by his juvenile misconduct.†   (source)
  • Though McKusick remembered the research he conducted on the Lacks family, he didn't remember meeting Deborah or giving her his book, and said he'd never had firsthand contact with the family.†   (source)
  • I've experienced it all firsthand, and I'm living proof that there's no such thing as a handicap—it's only in your head.†   (source)
  • When he sees firsthand video from an America's Cup crew member, Gunner feels, in some way, that he's sailed in the America's Cup, too.†   (source)
  • It hit Thomas then that the Runners were out in the Maze during the day and hadn't witnessed any of the recent events firsthand.†   (source)
  • Mamaw hated him, a fact I knew firsthand; but Dad said her hatred stemmed from the early days of his marriage to Mom, when he was far from a perfect husband.†   (source)
  • The fact is, the most established, respected ladies and gentlemen in England were availing themselves of the hospitality of the German leaders, and I can vouch at first-hand that the great majority of these persons were returning with nothing but praise and admiration for their hosts.†   (source)
  • Since the day she'd gone to get her operation, she'd felt the massive weight of the city looming over her, and had learned firsthand how much places like the Smoke threatened people like Dr. Cable.†   (source)
  • And yet, he'd also witnessed, firsthand, the dozens of ways Bill had turned himself around in the last few years.†   (source)
  • Everybody knew, for instance, that Harry and Marietta were the only students to have witnessed the scene in Dumbledore's office and, as Marietta was now in the hospital wing, Harry found himself besieged with requests to give a first-hand account.†   (source)
  • But in practice, most tissue research isn't covered because: (i) it's not federally funded, or (2) the researcher never learns the identity of the "donors" or has firsthand contact with them, in which case it's not considered research on humans.†   (source)
  • The Fifth Libation, Langdon realized, having read firsthand accounts of this sacrament in John Quincy Adams's Letters on the Masonic Institution.†   (source)
  • Despite everything he'd learned and witnessed firsthand, it called to him as much as hunger or thirst.†   (source)
  • It has never, of course, been my privilege to have seen such things at first-hand, but I will nevertheless hazard this with some confidence: the English landscape at its finest - such as I saw it this morning possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess.†   (source)
  • I should feel wrong about using Lucas, knowing firsthand what it's like to have your mind toyed with, but this is for Kilorn's life.†   (source)
  • And I saw firsthand the grace of His Majesty the king, the just ways of our Silver lords, and the great privilege they gave us.†   (source)
  • Adams experienced firsthand the "amazing depreciation" of the currency, of prices so high as to be laughable under any other circumstances.†   (source)
  • Marcia just wasn't wired that way, and Sophia knew firsthand how charming Brian could be when he put his mind to it.†   (source)
  • "It's terrible to lose somebody," I said, "I mean, I don't know firsthand, but I can imagine it must be.†   (source)
  • Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you.†   (source)
  • He had been in Hutterite colonies that had come near to that magic number and seen firsthand how things had changed.†   (source)
  • As part of the coursework, our professor took us to an autopsy so we could see firsthand what had so far been limited to textbooks and drawings.†   (source)
  • Unlike bites, werewolf claw marks wouldn't transmit lycanthropy, but Reyna knew firsthand that they healed slowly and burned like acid.†   (source)
  • Dawson found that out firsthand when he was eighteen, and then again at twenty-three, when he finally left for good.†   (source)
  • She looked so young with her clear blue eyes, her slightly pudgy rosy cheeks, her blond hair curling around the edges of her bonnet, but she spoke as if she'd seen the attack firsthand.†   (source)
  • For me, or any others, to color him this way or that without any firsthand knowledge is undignified and without call.†   (source)
  • That requires a firsthand look.†   (source)
  • From his summer working for Partners In Health in rural Rwanda, among the indigent sick, Deo had seen the country's poverty firsthand and had heard the murmuring hatreds that might be only temporarily suppressed.†   (source)
  • I'd seen newborn vampires firsthand, and I'd heard all my family-to-be's stories about those wild early days.†   (source)
  • I knew firsthand how well he could lie and what might come of it—this was nothing more than some publicity stunt to make everyone feel badly for him, because after a decade, who even remembered feeling badly for that police officer, that little girl?†   (source)
  • Conventions had a way of turning grown men back into adolescents—she'd witnessed that firsthand at a medical convention she'd attended in Birmingham a few months ago.†   (source)
  • He recites facts I already know about suicide and teenagers, and then we go around the room and say our names and how old we are and the thing we've been diagnosed with and if we've had any firsthand experience trying to kill ourselves.†   (source)
  • She also dealt with many teen moms, and had seen firsthand how often parents would kick the girls out and leave them to fend for themselves.†   (source)
  • I have little firsthand information about that time, since I was still not trusted with anything more dangerous than a sharp spoon, but I know he eventually talked my momma into coming back home with him, and kept her, this time, just long enough to leave her with another child, my baby brother, Mark.†   (source)
  • She didn't seem like the kind of teacher who would be cool with some slug sleeping in the back of the room, but she just kept on with her reading, interspersed with interesting firsthand facts about the early twentieth century, which I really liked (I loved hearing about the flappers—I would definitely have been a flapper if I'd lived in the 1920s).†   (source)
  • Indeed, Rush was one of the very few signers of the Declaration of Independence yet to see the reality of the war firsthand.†   (source)
  • Aisha knew firsthand the perils of a society that treated a woman as a fragile chalice of honor, for she herself was once accused of adultery.†   (source)
  • On this particular night, Adlai Stevenson is experiencing what some have called Dallas's "general atmosphere of hate" firsthand.†   (source)
  • I eventually ended up working for months of the year on a rig out in the ocean, not exactly a place conducive to relationships—I see that firsthand.†   (source)
  • As a onetime goalie himself, he knew firsthand what Mafoday was going through: the "sheer terror," as Anderson put it, of the penalty kick.†   (source)
  • Harley experienced Blade's celebrity firsthand when he paired up with Adam for winter warfare training in Virginia as well as some one-on-one mentoring.†   (source)
  • She'd witnessed, firsthand, Matt's cruelty-how he'd shoot rubber bands at ESL students who didn't know the words to report him to the faculty; how he called one overweight girl the Walking Earthquake; how he'd hide a shy kid's math textbook in order to watch him freak out, thinking it was lost.†   (source)
  • Much has been made in Europe about the changing face of fine art, and the influence these islands have had, and John would like to experience this part of the world firsthand.†   (source)
  • The one visitor known to have recorded a firsthand impression of Adams that fall of 1788 found him quite at peace with life and surprisingly approachable.†   (source)
  • Among the most vivid firsthand accounts of the night was that of John Greenwood, the young fifer from Boston, who after the march to New York in April had been sent off to serve in Canada and had only just rejoined Washington's army.†   (source)
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