outstart
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No one can advise you when to throw your "hat in the ring" and say defiantly at the outstart, "Gentlemen, I am here to fight!"
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
Would you have me give the secret of my success at the very outstart?
From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke
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
Determined to be 'single in the head of all,' he pushed between the Nonparilla and Rainbow, and 'thrust himself athwart the channel, so as I was sure none should outstart me again for that day.'
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
I was very sure that none would outstart me again for that day.”
From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
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