setting-out
Example Sentences
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Hence, therefore, I returned home with the intention of remaining there quietly for a few months before setting-out to seek my fortune.
From Wilfrid Cumbermede by George MacDonald
He had shaken hands, perhaps not altogether graciously, with every one else, even with the deaf-and-dumb gardener who came out of his hiding-place to witness the setting-out.
From Old Lady Number 31 by Louise Forsslund
Many of the Erisaig people would still be watching their setting-out; and was it to be supposed that they had taken this doited old body as one of the crew?
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black
In Paimpol again, on the last day of February, before the setting-out for Iceland.
From An Iceland Fisherman by M. Jules Cambon
Of course the setting-out of the city is half the game.
From Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
