From ___ to finish

Usage examples of start.

Indeed, the best accredited and most popular couples would take a start away from their companions and acquaintances, and ride ten miles or so to be married privately, and so escape all ceremony.

Post-humanism schooled us to think in terms of fits and starts, of structures accreting along unspoken patterns, following the lines first suggested by the ancient Terran philosopher llya Prigogine.

And the fellers acrost the street hollered and started shooting at both of us.

Yet, when at last the expected step drew near, she shuddered, trembled, and turned pale with affright, and, starting to her feet, looked this way and that with a wild impulse to flee: then, as the door opened, she dropped into her chair again, and covered her face with her shaking hands.

The French camp is in this crater, stupefied, affrighted, starting up from sleeping,--a funereal swarming.

His idea was to start people at one level of development and, using the transcendent or allegorical method, work them up to gnosis.

The garrotte goes round his neck at the start of the Allegretto grazioso, keeps turning like you turn a can opener until the breath is out of his body and his neck is cut through.

She rested them softly on the keys a moment, then started the allegro once again.

And next Summer when I start out on my campane with my Show, wharever I pitch my little tent, you shall see floatin prowdly from the center pole thereof the Amerikan Flag, with nary a star wiped out, nary a stripe less, but the same old flag that has allers flotid thar!

She started to wave to the detective but a cluster of people ambled between them and she lost sight of him.

Pangle stood beside him, and theirs was the proud and nervous pose men struck when having ambrotypes made at the start of the war, though instead of rifle musket and Colt pistol and bowie knife, Stobrod and Pangle held fiddle and banjo before them as defining implements.

If Ambry starts acting peculiarly I can try to get him to snap out of the spell or, if that fails, call a doctor.

I saw nothing of the amphitheatre, nothing of the spectators, nothing but her, till, at the sudden shout from the crowd, I roused myself with a start.

Christa do the actual hook-up of the amplifier and the stereo, insisting that if she did not start learning about electronics immediately, she would be lost in rock and roll.

Significantly, it is Chien, the Anarchist, with whom this novel starts.