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Example sentences for "setting forth"

  • It is for this reason that in ecclesiastical art, St. Luke is represented by the winged Ox as setting forth Christ's Atonement through sacrifice.

  • Here, in a substantial family chaise, setting forth betimes to take advantage of the dewy road, come a gentleman and his wife with their rosy-cheeked little girl sitting gladsomely between them.

  • At the foot of the staircase he met the governor, booted and spurred, with his cloak drawn around him, evidently on the point of setting forth upon a journey.

  • In ordinary grammatical order they would run: 'The well-wishing adventurer in setting forth [i.

  • Setting forth by a different route upon the morrow's morn, a row downstream from Kilgerran introduces us to some charmingly diversified reaches of the swift-flowing Teivy.

  • Setting forth by the morning train, we alight at Lamphey Station; whence we make our way to the grand old ruins of Carew Castle, as our piece de resistance for to-day.

  • An express arrived from Mr. Clerk, setting forth, on the authority of letters received from Macgregor at Jellalabad, that the Caubul force had been utterly destroyed.

  • There was no harm in this philosopher's setting forth his method then, and giving very minute and strict directions in regard to its applications to 'certain subjects.

  • The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.

  • The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.

  • Certainly, acts had been done by him which, according to Wheaton, constituted a "setting forth as a vessel of war.

  • There was a new totemism, a breaking down of national religion, a spirit of propaganda, and a setting forth of the whole in all dramatic forms.

  • It has been used for the mode of setting forth manners, customs, and mores in satirical comedy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    admit women; clock the next morning; disagreeable odor; easily recognized; explosive shell; first sergeant; get there; guardian spirits; little pony; nervous fever; normal persons; philosophical works; prepared for; real estate; setting apart; setting fire; setting forth; setting machine; setting them; simple ideas; though with; universal salvation; ventral view; veratrum viride; whose life; will assist