When the siren gave the signal to begin work, Hoeflinger saw that the newcomer made a good start; and the experience he had had with zealous beginners gave him reason to anticipate that the Swiss youth would become a good workman.
But now and then his animated glance would take in Spiele's trim figure and sometimes he remained behind in order to take a good start and to rush on like an express train.
One was waiting for an increase of salary, which might happen any day; the other had a nice little lawsuit on concerning an inheritance, and might at any moment be master of a few thousand thalers, enough at least to make a good start.
We have made a good start on economic cooperation through the International Bank, the International Monetary fund, and the Export-Import Bank.
We've made a good start on turning the gobbledygook of Federal regulations into plain English that people can understand.
Fortunately, we have a good start on this because of our enormous plant capacity and because of the equipment on hand from the last war.
The great thing in affairs of this kind is to get a good start, and Fate, feeling perhaps that it had been a little hard upon Mr. Downing, gave him a most magnificent start.
He had won handicap events at College sports at Oxford, and, if Mike had not got such a good start, the race might have been over in the first fifty yards.
I waited a bit to give them a good start, and then sheered off myself.
After some three or four breakaways, the eleven were despatched to a good start, except Vera Cruz, who reared and plunged just as the drum tapped, Dan K.
With little or no delay the five went away to a good start, Fonso in the lead, lapped by Kimball, Boulevard third, Bancroft fourth, Quito fifth.
Lifting a sod and turning it back kills all the grass and weeds around the seedling, and gives it a chance to get a good start.
He will go back and back, so as to get a good start, and when at last he tries he has to run so far before he reaches the mark that he is out of breath and can't jump.
Mine were July birds, too, but I fed them on oatmeal for a couple of weeks, and that gave them a good start.
Mind, I don't think you'll catch the beggars in any case; they've got a good start of you.
Spur up that nag of yours; we shall get a good start here," cried Claverton, as they reached a comparatively open plateau of about a mile in extent.
Avoid loose planting if you want your plants to get a good start, and do well.
Give them a good start, at the time of planting, and keep them up to a high standard of vitality by liberal feeding, and they will surprise and delight you with the profusion and beauty of their bloom.
If we wait until all conditions are favorable, the young plants will get a good start and go steadily ahead, and distance those from seed sown before the soil had become warm or the weather settled.
Dolly had a good start, and growing much excited with the petulance of the wind and with her own audacity, crossed the mouth of the brook at a very fine pace, with the easterly gusts to second her.
Twemlow stepped back a few yards, and then with a good start delivered a rushing kick; but the only result was a jar of his leg through the sole of his thin dress sandal.
These may need the shelter of mats or old lights until the plant has made a good start, but it is not often the plant suffers in any serious degree from spring frosts, as the seed will not germinate until the soil acquires a safe temperature.
Cyclamen seed not only germinates slowly, but it also grows in the most capricious manner; sometimes a few plants come up long after others have made a good start.
When they are good, they will take partridges, with a good start, but not otherwise; and many of them will tackle a pheasant.
On a very still day it is possible that a single hawk in good practice might take a common gull at the first stoop, if she had a good start; but if that failed, the quarry would most likely escape.
Partridges will sometimes be captured in fair flight when a good start is made.
I got a good start, in the other meaning of the word, on the afternoon of the first day when descending into a ravine.
Our horses were not buffalo-runners, yet we felt a certain confidence that if we could find a bunch and get a good start on them, we would bring in the desired meat.
Usually we failed to get the dogs near enough for a good start; and in most cases their chases after unwounded prongbuck resulted in the quarry running clean away from them.
They've got a good startof us," Ferrier called from the leading raft.
They've had a good start of us, but we travel lighter and ought to catch them if we don't lose the trail.
We've made a good start, sir, although we've lost rather heavily.
I was amongst the first few, because I had got a good start, but Jim was nearly last--I'd seen him helping Dicky to haul himself into the fighting top.
Nurla's got a good start: it won't be easy to catch him," said Lawrence.
Quite six miles, I should think, so you'll have a good start.
The enemy would probably waste some time in searching for him--enough to give him a good start.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good start" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
