set afoot
Example Sentences
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Meantime a semi-serious movement was set afoot in Michigan to recall Governor Dickinson, as an embarrassing if not improper old bore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize" them.
From Time Magazine Archive
He did not know, of course, that changes had been set afoot during many months before his mother's end came.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
His Gospel shews us from what side he looked on the work then being set afoot.
From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry
The one before that, leaving Dinard at ten-twelve, ran on certain days only, and moreover would hardly have allowed Alec the necessary time in which to stop the various inquiries he had set afoot.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
