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Sentences ending with second-hand

I hope you will allow me to say that your guild, when you take the conventional, you have got it at second-hand. [5]
It is odd that even to this day Americans still observe that immortal benefaction through English and other monarchical eyes, and have no shred of an opinion about it that they didn't get at second-hand. [5]
It is because some of them only read a little of the squib I wrote and jumped to the conclusion that it was serious, and the rest did not read it at all, but heard of my agricultural venture at second-hand. [5]
He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. [5]

Sentences containing second-hand two or more times

One might as well wear second-hand clothing as get a second-hand letter. [4]

More example sentences with the word second-hand in them

Trying to impose your vile second-hand carcasses on us!--thunder and lightning, I've a notion to--to--if you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!--or by George we'll brain you! [5]
But if he was, he still got his information at second-hand, as it was the operator who noticed Harriet's lack of emotion, not himself. [5]
The King was warm and comfortable, now, for he had cast his rags and clothed himself in the second-hand suit which Hendon had bought on London Bridge. [5]
We tried to trade him off at private vendue next, offering him at a sacrifice for second-hand tombstones, old iron, temperance tracts--any kind of property. [5]
She provided the top of everything for those companies, and in abundance --among them many a dish and many a wine which they had not tasted before and which they had not even heard of except at second-hand from the prince's servants. [5]
His sympathy seemed to say to the living, "I wonder how soon you'll come into my hands," and to the dead, "What a pity you can only die once--and second-hand coffins so hard to get! [11]
It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. [5]
An instance of this second-hand acquisition of knowledge occurred the very next morning, when Lily Dallam, with much dignity, walked into Honora's little sitting-room. [9]
The sidewalks and the streets swarmed with noisy dealers in every sort of second-hand merchandise--vegetables that had seen a better day, fish in shoals. [4]
And he said that Gould sold out for a pair of second-hand government blankets and a bottle of whisky that killed nine men in three hours, and that an unoffending stranger that smelt the cork was disabled for life. [5]
I have some suspicions; I got them at second-hand, but they have remained with me these ten or twelve years. [5]
It was a second-hand shop in Covent Garden. [11]
At the first second-hand clothing shop I came to, up a back street, I got a rough rig suitable for a common seaman who might be going on a cold voyage, and bound up my face with a liberal bandage, saying I had a toothache. [5]
It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. [5]
She was so impatient that the second-hand seemed whole tedious minutes dragging its way around the circle. [5]
With this view, he issued forth to a place hard by, where sea-stores were sold, purchased a second-hand hammock, and had it slung in seamanlike fashion from the ceiling of the counting-house. [12]
Shortly after I had retired from his presence it occurred to me that he had said nothing to forbid my making a boat, and the first thing I did after school that day was to procure, for twenty-five cents, a second-hand book on boat construction. [9]
Outside influences--in the form of lifelong teachings, trainings, notions, prejudices, and other second-hand importations--have persuaded the Master within you that the publication of these doctrines would be harmful. [5]
Out of consideration for Mr. Stephen Brice, we shall skip likewise a most affecting scene at Mr. Canter's second-hand furniture store. [9]
We'll look about for a second-hand stool, sir. [12]
Well, when he come out I stood back out of sight, and then tracked him to a second-hand slop-shop and see him buy a red flannel shirt and some old ragged clothes--just the ones he's got on now, as you've described. [5]
Perhaps he drank a little more, perhaps he was a little more reckless at cards, and it was certain that his taste for amusing himself in second-hand book-shops and antiquity collections had weakened. [4]

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