set afoot
Example Sentences
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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
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
He did not know, of course, that changes had been set afoot during many months before his mother's end came.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
Of the many godly enterprises set afoot for exploration and conquest in New Spain of the sixteenth century, not all have chronicles important enough for the historian to make much of.
From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis
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.
