outstart
Example Sentences
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Many young men become discouraged at the very outstart by attempting to read and study books that are far beyond their comprehension.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
The advocates of women in dentistry were met at the outstart with the health question, and as it had never been tested, the most favorably inclined looked forward with some anxiety to the result.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Many of these he was compelled at the outstart to forego, and he set to work upon his first book, the Grammatica Græca of Lascaris, with barely a tithe of that number.
From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater
He is at the outstart of a road which is beset with all imaginable kinds of obstacles.
From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke
At the very outstart resolve to be professional in your methods, be businesslike, and play fair.
From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
