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{{timeline, 1800s=1851 1861, 2000s=2006}} * 1851 — ch 28 *: The mates regularly relieved each other at the watches, and for aught that could be seen to the contrary, they seemed to be the only commanders of the ship; only they sometimes issued from the cabin with orders so sudden and peremptory, that after all it was plain they but commanded vicariously . * 1861 — ch IV *: My sister, having so much to do, was going to church vicariously , that is to say, Joe and I were going. * a.'' 2004 , Bill Watterson, ''Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat , Andrews McMeel, ISBN 0-8362-1769-1 *: Dad, are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for all [of] the opportunities you botched? * 2006 — Song Vicarious *: I need to watch things die from a good safe distance. / Vicariously , I live while the whole world dies. / You all feel the same so why can't we just admit it? English manner adverbs

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{{timeline, 1800s=1886, 1900s=1900 1920}} * 1886 — ch 10 *: The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term. But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous. When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity. * 1900 — ch 26 *: As time went on, the cruel custom was so far mitigated that a ram was accepted as a vicarious sacrifice in room of the royal victim. * 1920 — ch III *: In these, however, he had not much time to indulge, for a footman, still decked in the trappings of vicarious grief, opened the door with the most startling promptitude, and he was ushered upstairs into a small but richly furnished room.