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
You never can tell when you may be set afoot.
From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Garland, Hamlin
His Gospel shews us from what side he looked on the work then being set afoot.
From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry
The prospect before us—thus set afoot upon the prairie at such a distance from the settlements, and at such a season—was perfectly appalling.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
