setting-out
Example Sentences
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Therefore it is best to adhere to the dear old rules for the dear old game, and only thank Fate with special reverence when sea-breezes or country zephyrs float around one's own personal setting-out.
From In a Mysterious Way by Anne Warner
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
He had shaken hands, perhaps not altogether graciously, with every one else, even with the deaf-and-dumb gardener who came out of his hiding-place to witness the setting-out.
From Old Lady Number 31 by Louise Forsslund
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
