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
But I daresay a man gets little pleasure out of a red sky when he is set afoot in a horseless land.
From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
In fact, every stranger is looked after sharply with the ever-present fear of horse-thieves and of the possibility of being set afoot by a night-stampede of the stock.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
Let it be said, however, that Condorcet showed himself no pedantic nor fastidious trifler with the tremendous movement which he had contributed to set afoot.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by Morley, John
