set afoot
Example Sentences
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Meantime a semi-serious movement was set afoot in Michigan to recall Governor Dickinson, as an embarrassing if not improper old bore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize" them.
From Time Magazine Archive
With courage revived, he could go to the Castle now and demand with a high hand that inquiries as to the fate of Terence should be set afoot.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
The inquiries Mr. Steele set afoot resulted, in a short time, in information of surprising moment to the three Raby orphans.
From Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans by Emerson, Alice B.
For the principal priests of those sacrifices were the principal people of the village, and they were respected and venerated by all and could set afoot any treachery against him.
