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Updated: June 26, 2025
Suppose we wait until to-morrow when it's too late. I am thankful for the trade we've got. But I don't want to be narrow about it. My thanking capacity is such that I can stretch it out to cover some things we haven't got yet. I've been reading up on South America." "Reading!" put in Buck hotly. "What actual first-hand information can you get about a country from books?"
That stay at the Briskows' turned out to be less irksome than the visitor had anticipated, for the afternoon was spent with Buddy examining the Briskow wells and others near by. It was an interesting experience, and Gray obtained a deal of first-hand information that he believed would come in handy.
"How long have you been in the Orient?" Elsa asked. "Ten years," he answered gravely. "That is a long time." "Sometimes it was like eternity." "I have heard from the purser of your good luck." "Oh!" He stooped again and locked the door of Rajah's cage. "I dare say a good many people will hear of it." "It was splendid. I love to read stories like that, but I'd far rather hear them told first-hand."
Although he was "only a black fellow," yet was he an Australian by the purest lineage and birth one whose physique was example of the class that tropical Queensland is capable of producing, a man of brains, a student of Nature who had stored his mind with first-hand knowledge unprinted and now unprintable, a hunter of renown, and in certain respects "a citizen impossible to replace."
One ought not to rely on translations: Confucius should be read in Chinese, the Koran in Arabic, and the few years spent in the acquisition of Persian would be rewarded by a first-hand familiarity with the Zend Avesta. The Old Testament enjoins capital punishment. On what grounds, then, if one is leaning the other way, may a text be set aside that seems to settle the matter positively?
Men cannot wrest a first-hand living from the soil and at the same time cultivate a Piccadilly club-land style and air. It is a valley of small holdings, being divided into farms and orchards, varying in size from several to two or three hundred acres. Many grants were apportioned there in the early days.
I have a more or less professional interest in public affairs; that is to say, I have had opportunity to look at politics from the point of view of the man who is trying to get the attention of people in order to carry through some reform. At first it was a hard confession to make, but the more I saw of politics at first-hand, the more I respected the indifference of the public.
This first-hand gospel from the Eternities, imparted to every mortal, this is still, and will forever be, your sanction and commission for the punishment of human scoundrels. See well how you will translate this message from Heaven and the Eternities into a form suitable to this World and its Times.
Sometimes they pull your pillow out from under your head," replied Flo, laconically. Carley did not ask any more questions. Natural history was not her favorite study and she was sure she could dispense with any first-hand knowledge of desert beasts. She thought, however, she heard one of the men say, "Big varmint prowlin' round the sheep." To which Hutter replied, "Reckon it was a bear."
"And to call me a dirty spy, when I got you first-hand information, and ran your letters through to Gueldersdorp, at the risk of my blooming neck.... Well, you'll be ashamed when you get back there and see those letters, that's what you will, sure!" "The letters got through yes. But did they get through in time to be of use?" The little she-devil suspected the truth.
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