outstart

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The advocates of women in dentistry were met at the outstart with the health question, and as it had never been tested, the most favorably inclined looked forward with some anxiety to the result.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Would you have me give the secret of my success at the very outstart?

From Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by Cooke, James Francis

To give them Bach or Brahms at the outstart would be to irritate them.

From Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression by Cooke, James Francis

I was very sure that none would outstart me again for that day.”

From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd

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 Townsend, George Alfred