"The only thing I've heard and that's secondhand is that she lost some part of her memory.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover
An old lady with a trembling voice and a very sharp pair of eyes wished for a secondhand copy.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
I can't possibly give you the effect of it at secondhand, in the mere repetition of it there was little more than that he was wildly, madly happy, that there was no one in the world as happy as he, that now at last the gods had given him all that he had ever wanted, let them now do their worst-and so crying, flung his glass over his shoulder, and smashed it on to the wall behind him.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole