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Secondhand

adjective

Derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand. "A secondhand account of a memory of something once read" , "Most of our knowledge is secondhand"

Previously used or owned by another. Synonym: used.

adverb

By indirect means. "He prefers to buy secondhand"

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"Secondhand" Quotes from Famous Books

... Why, what is you talkin' 'bout? Two—hund'd—dollahs. Sakes alive, it's 'mos' enough to buy a tol'able good secondhand nigger wid. En you ain't lyin', honey? You wouldn't ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... be worth?" quoth Belcolore. "Worth!" ejaculated the priest: "I would have thee know that 'tis all Douai, not to say Trouai, make: nay, there are some of our folk here that say 'tis Quadrouai; and 'tis not a fortnight since I bought it of Lotto, the secondhand dealer, for seven good pounds, and then had it five good soldi under value, by what I hear from Buglietto, who, thou knowest, is an excellent judge of these articles." "Oh! say you so?" exclaimed Belcolore. "So help ...

— The Decameron, Vol. II. • Giovanni Boccaccio

... What happened on that tragic night can obviously be known to you only at secondhand. You have no proofs. Neither have ...

— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc

... so well, that he seemed little more than an animated bundle of secondhand goods. His cowhide boots were the fellows of those that dangled from the fourth beam. His gayly checked flannel shirt harmonized delightfully with the carriage robes in the corner, and the soft brown-felt hat toned aesthetically with the ...

— Flint - His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes • Maud Wilder Goodwin

... got from Bowen's hardware-store for two dollars and forty cents. He wanted four dollars, and we argued for some time. The stove was a secondhand one and good only for scrap-iron anyway. Scrap was worth fifty cents a hundred, and this stove weighed only two hundred fifty, so we convinced the man our offer was big. At that we made him throw ...

— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

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