outstart
Example Sentences
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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
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
A man who has occupied this position without interruption during three administrations would be a failure at the very outstart if he resorted to devious conduct or political duplicity.
From The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox by Charles E. Morris
"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
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
