outstart

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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 Slater, J. Herbert (John Herbert)

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

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

The voice at the outstart must be trained lightly and carefully.

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