setting-out
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The news of his Sister's setting-out relieved him of a great and continual anxiety.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle
It was not until they were at the mouth of the harbour that something occurred which seemed likely to turn this brave setting-out into ridicule.
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black
In Paimpol again, on the last day of February, before the setting-out for Iceland.
From An Iceland Fisherman by M. Jules Cambon
Many of the Erisaig people would still be watching their setting-out; and was it to be supposed that they had taken this doited old body as one of the crew?
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black
Miss Twitchel and Miss Jones were talking about it; and they all say that there would be the best setting-out got for her that was ever seen in Newport, if it should happen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
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