set afoot
Example Sentences
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Meantime a semi-serious movement was set afoot in Michigan to recall Governor Dickinson, as an embarrassing if not improper old bore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize" them.
From Time Magazine Archive
He did not know, of course, that changes had been set afoot during many months before his mother's end came.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
Let it be said, however, that Condorcet showed himself no pedantic nor fastidious trifler with the tremendous movement which he had contributed to set afoot.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by Morley, John
He built gas works, set afoot a School of Art, a Museum—all the things in fact which are necessary to Western municipal welfare and comfort, and saw that they were the best of their kind.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
