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

It was not until they were at the mouth of the harbour that something occurred which seemed likely to turn this brave setting-out into ridicule.

From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William

In Paimpol again, on the last day of February, before the setting-out for Iceland.

From An Iceland Fisherman by Cambon, M. Jules

I should like to emphasise the importance of the setting-out work necessary for brush-drawing.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold

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