What is "setting out"

Usage examples of "setting out".

Although it was early in the year a period of drought had already checked the spate of the current sufficiently to make boating pleasurable, and he noted that in the gardens of the Hungaria River Club, on the opposite bank, they were setting out their gay paraphernalia preparatory to opening for the Season.

He knew Nadia, and he knew too well that nothing would have prevented her from setting out.

He never wept over me, when I was setting out, nor said, To what a danger are you going to be exposed!

I have been setting out some new raspberries, two sorts,--a silver and a gold color.

Gardiner would be prevented by business from setting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month.

I have travelled over almost all Turkey, and was on the point of setting out for the Court of Persia, where I heard you made a great figure.

I now made no farther objections to our setting out, which we did the next morning, and in a little more than a week arrived at the seat of Mr Fitzpatrick.

Here for almost a quarter of a century-interrupted only by a hiatus of three years as a result of certain events at the Reichenbach Falls-he used his scientific equipment, library of reference works and commonplace books, in conjunction with his exceptional powers of reason to reassure potential clients before setting out on his cases.

But I will cease from these unprofitable wonderings which have but one value, that of setting out my strange necessity of choice between an absent and a present love, and go on with the story of an event in which there was no room to balance scruples.

Tegeli was an unlikely landfall for any vessel but one deliberately setting out for it.