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heard through another rather than directly- Hearsay evidence is generally not permitted in the United States. It generally is permitted in England for civil cases.
- Like great primitive birds welded up out of iron by hearsay in a land perhaps where such birds once had been.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- Based on hearsay rather than personal experience?Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- The ladies pass the time with gossip and hearsay.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- They can only take them on hearsay.E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- People are telling you lies and hearsay.Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
- It would just be hearsay testimony.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- That was when I was a child; I know about it from hearsay and tradition.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- Of course I only speak from hearsay.Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
- I knew by hearsay that he was the editor of the American Mercury, but aside from that I knew nothing about him.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- In court, that's nothing more than hearsay.Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
- No, this is new and, I might add, hearsay.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- Hearsay testimony is not admissible.Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
- There was nothing but words, transparent but vague; sometimes idle reports, rumors, hearsay.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- These were chiefly people from the northern suburbs, whose knowledge of the Black Smoke came by hearsay.H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
- In any event, what Mike and Ootek had told me was largely hearsay evidence, and this was not what I was employed to gather.Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
- But he knew, more from hearsay than from personal experience, that such easy happiness could not last very long.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- 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.Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
- 'By hearsay,' answered Bazarov angrily.Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- It was all hearsay, you know.Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
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