1 Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all.
2 She knew that he was satisfied with Gopher Prairie, but it gave her vicarious hope to think of going, to ask for railroad folders at the station, to trace the maps with a restless forefinger.
3 She had vicarious happiness in the return of Major Raymond Wutherspoon.
4 When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 5 My sister, having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
6 So, only half resigned to her fate, she spent most of her time with Scarlett, vicariously enjoying a pregnancy not her own.