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setting to

verb as in attack

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I can figure you with your Herodotus before you, your Scapula on one side, and your maps on the other, setting-to in good earnest.

At this time the horses setting-to fighting, M. Schlagentweit directed Murad to go and quiet them.

But, like the sun which is setting to-night, he will rise again to-morrow!

Then, setting-to with an expression that might have indicated the woes of a lifetime, he made a hearty breakfast.

It is used, with the wrain-staff in the ring, for setting-to the planks.

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On this page you'll find 657 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to setting to, such as: contend, disagree, dispute, quarrel, quibble, and squabble.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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