setting-out
Example Sentences
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Many of the Erisaig people would still be watching their setting-out; and was it to be supposed that they had taken this doited old body as one of the crew?
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William
On the morning of Baldassare's setting-out for the Mantuan road, La Testolina—at that time much and unhealthily in Fra Battista's hire—came breathless to the Via Stella.
From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
The first preparation for our setting-out was, that the captain's half-pike was placed near the coachman, and a drum behind the coach.
From Days with Sir Roger De Coverley by Steele, Richard, Sir
He enter’d into the Service very young, and distinguished himself at his first setting-out, so that he really owes his Advancement more to his Services and Merit, than to Fortune.
Hence, therefore, I returned home with the intention of remaining there quietly for a few months before setting-out to seek my fortune.
From Wilfrid Cumbermede by MacDonald, George
