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He enter’d into the Service very young, and distinguished himself at his first setting-out, so that he really owes his Advancement more to his Services and Merit, than to Fortune.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

I should like to emphasise the importance of the setting-out work necessary for brush-drawing.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold

Of course the setting-out of the city is half the game.

From Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Black, William

On the morning of Baldassare's setting-out for the Mantuan road, La Testolina—at that time much and unhealthily in Fra Battista's hire—came breathless to the Via Stella.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry




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