Start on a journey

Usage examples of set forth.

Thus clad, he set forth upon his quest, until he came to the verge of the forest, and so to the highway.

So, having chosen four more stout fellows, Will Stutely and his band set forth to Fosse Way, to find whether they might not come across some rich guest to feast that day in Sherwood with Robin and his band.

The first class set forth that Rebecca was heard to mutter to herself in an unknown tongue.

Mem-Yod-Memfinal (Maim), even as it is afterwards set forth in Verse 2.

Sympathetically set forth it would tap many strange, beautiful qualities in obscure men.

When the anti-slavery reformers of thirty years ago set forth the cruelties of the slave system, they were met with a storm of indignant denial, villification and rebuke.

Far too well aware, nevertheless, of the necessity of yielding the most implicit obedience to the commands he had received to resign himself any longer to the pleasant temptations of repose, Carrio, after yawning, rubbing his eyes, and indulging for a few moments more in the luxury of complaint, set forth in earnest to follow the corridors leading to the interior of the palace, and to awaken Vetranio without further delay.

Such, sweet my ladies, has been the tenor of our discourse, that times not a few the might of Love, how great and singular it is, has been set forth: but yet I doubt the topic is not exhausted, nor would it be so, though we should continue to speak of nought else for the space of a full year.

They set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement.

He himself, by the way, had once made use of this little simile, and had written a poem in which it was melodiously set forth that the poetic minds scattered about the world correspond to the little shells one picks up on the beach, all resonant with the echo of ocean.

A man passing by thrust an advertising card in my hand, which set forth the merits of some new scheme of life insurance.

So, having arrayed himself, he and the four yeomen set forth upon their way, Will Scarlet taking the lead, for he knew better than the others whither to go.

There throughout the next day I lay hidden- alone with my sufferings of body and my affliction of heart--until the night came on, when I set forth on my journey to the mountains.

Which utterances of the King the two men pondered, but finding therein nought that was helpful or relevant to their need, they doubted the King had but mocked them, and set forth upon their homeward journey.

They set forth their own conclusions very clearly and, I think, with powerful supporting evidence.