outstart
Example Sentences
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"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
He is at the outstart of a road which is beset with all imaginable kinds of obstacles.
From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke
So I judged they had our gang in a pretty tight place right at the outstart.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain
Determined to be 'single in the head of all,' he pushed between the Nonparilla and Rainbow, and 'thrust himself athwart the channel, so as I was sure none should outstart me again for that day.'
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
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
