outstart
Example Sentences
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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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
At the outstart you must admit to yourself that to see every release of every company is impossible, and even if it were possible it would be unnecessary.
From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
No one can advise you when to throw your "hat in the ring" and say defiantly at the outstart, "Gentlemen, I am here to fight!"
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
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 George Alfred Townsend
"The Arctics hawk-up their haunted heart, and raucous, spue; and north-winds, wawling calls, outstart, to droop anew; the clouds like scouts updart, depart, and truceless do, and droop anew."
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
