Men of action, whether inside fort walls, bartering in the tepee of the Indian, or off on silent trails alone,-it has been given to each of them to live life at firsthand.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron
But it's firsthand, Jack, if that's what you want.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
How many settlers in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland also were recruited from it, I know not; but the reader may have it at second-hand from me, as I had it at firsthand from my genealogist, that some Virginian names of the first quality originated in Whitechapel, which, in the colonizing times, was a region of high respectability, and not for generations afterwards the perlieu it became, and has now again somewhat ceased to be.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells