The wind was nothing in itself-it was the direction it came from; it got a bad character from imputed or vicarious vice.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
We all understand, of course, that the daughters of the rich are entitled to joy, and we provide them with it as a matter of course; but the daughters of the poor are supposed to work in a cotton mill ten or eleven hours a day from earliest childhood, and the joy we provide for them is vicarious.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Once she had asked her small vicarious favour of Hew, she could write to Mrs. Kaye, and take the note to the rectory herself.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes