A credible man vouching his knowledge of it is a good proof; but if another equally credible do witness it from his report, the testimony is weaker: and a third that attests the hearsay of an hearsay is yet less considerable.

I'll 'scribe for a paper to-day, instead of trustin' to hearsay for the news.

Night came on me yesterday before I could reach Lee's Mill, and I have nothing but hearsay in regard to that place.

A large percentage of facts was gained from gossip and hearsay about those long since dead.

The book covers investigations made by Dugdale between 1850 and 1870, a period in which little was known about the laws that govern inheritance, and necessarily, much evidence was pure hearsay without the data of careful investigation at hand.