From direct experience

Usage examples of firsthand.

The one visitor known to have recorded a firsthand impression of Adams that fall of 1788 found him quite at peace with life and surprisingly approachable.

Winter weekends, whole summers out in the woods, in empty lots, in our immense, dark backyard, examining the scat of rabbits, catching bizarre electrical arthropoda in jars, convinced, sensing firsthand the terrible expanse of the place.

Apart from various physicists and astrogeologists who were eagerly making use of the rare chance to study firsthand the effects on other bodies of removing a large mass from a planetary system, that was one week too long.

Thus, insofar as behaviorist and neuroscientific models rely on firsthand accounts of experience, they continue to depend on introspection.

Her prodigious research, begun in 1977, has led her to prehistoric sites in Europe to add to her firsthand knowledge of such arts as flint knapping, the construction of snow caves, tanning hides, and gathering and preparing wild foods and medicinal plants and herbs.

If they were operators, too, her team could learn firsthand about what was needed on the front end for the deals to work.

Otto von Meissner, chief of the Presidential Chancellery, and Goering, who had accompanied Hitler, were the only witnesses to the conversation, and though Meissner is not a completely dependable source, his affidavit at Nuremberg is the only firsthand testimony in existence of what followed.

Gauss and Euler, Riemann and Levi-Civita, deRham and Cartan, Radiya and Blanca then Yatima knew there were no shortcuts, no alternatives to exploring the Mines firsthand.

Kressn had his uses and his functions, which Sela had found out firsthand.

But in fact, as we learn from Strakhov, Dostoevsky had little or no firsthand acquaintance with old-fashioned Slavophilism and honestly thought his own ideas to be of quite a different stamp.

No one ever writes about anything that she has not experienced firsthand.

Pietro, so that you might meet some of my contestants at firsthand, the better to assist them as they go about their work for me.

What they needed was someone who could be trusted, someone Who understood firsthand the danger Loverboy presented.

Many scientific materialists seem to have so ignored their own firsthand experience of the mind that they fail to recognize that personal experience is not limited to the five physical senses but includes mental perception as well.

See the firsthand account of the intifadah in al-Salihi, al-Zihal, pp. 63-227.