outstart
Example Sentences
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Its people embraced the revolutionary cause at the outstart, and furnished some companies of foot to the Confederate service, as well as a mounted company known as the "Black Horse Cavalry."
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
The voice at the outstart must be trained lightly and carefully.
From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke
At the very outstart resolve to be professional in your methods, be businesslike, and play fair.
From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
Many of these he was compelled at the outstart to forego, and he set to work upon his first book, the Grammatica Græca of Lascaris, with barely a tithe of that number.
From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater
"The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew."
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
