Both Uses of
firsthand
in
Nineteen Minutes
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- She understood, firsthand, what her clients were feeling.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
received directly from the original source; or experienced in person