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Example sentences for "started for"

  • Although we had friendly recommendations, he would not pledge himself to anything before examining Mary, and we started for Paris in some uncertainty.

  • He also took some precautions in view of the next cruise, and when he started for it, with Stephen and Maurice, he was provided with a passport and a recommendation from the English Ambassador.

  • On October 4 we started for England, leaving my mother in charge of the house and children; we stopped at Fontainebleau in the morning, and after déjeuner visited the forest pretty thoroughly in a carriage.

  • We started for a four days' voyage or so, to Beira.

  • Afterwards, before I started for home, she came and talked to me alone.

  • On August 30th, early in the morning, we started for Cologne; proceeded thence by rail to Bonn, and embarking on board a steamer for Coblentz, went up the Rhine.

  • Wiesbaden for Mannheim, where my husband preached four times; and on the 16th started for Heidelberg, at which place, on Sunday, Sept.

  • On the 28th we started for Dijon, remained there one night, and went on to Neuchatel, Switzerland, on the 29th.

  • Sir Charles writes: 'At this time my attention was exclusively turned to foreign affairs, and immediately after my Black Sea speech I started for Paris.

  • When the outlines had been sketched in, he wrote: 'Before I started for my Easter holiday I went through the draft of the Local Government Bill.

  • So I started for London at once, taking the photograph and another of Burbidge, whom I had never seen in my life.

  • Then he started for Paris, to secure a patent for his new invention, taking with him a general power of attorney to raise money on his wife's property.

  • With what was left of this sum he started for America, and landed in New York, where he was well received.

  • After this I started for Khost, accompanied by Colonel Waterfield, the political officer.

  • This was agreed to, and I started for Madras, taking my wife and two little daughters with me, the boy being left at school in England.

  • Leaving Adye in the pass, I started for Attock, where I spent three days riding about in search of a promising site for the camp.

  • But in a certain way he did know what was wanted; and now, as he started for Florence, intending to stop nowhere till he reached that city, he hoped that by this chivalrous journey he might even yet achieve the thing necessary.

  • Major Grantly went back to the inn and saw his horse fed, and smoked a cigar, and then, finding that it was still only just one o'clock, he started for a walk.

  • After staying about an hour at Caernarvon we started for Llanberis, a few miles to the east.

  • The following morning we started for Kourata, the distance and inconvenience being about the same as on the preceding day.

  • They all eventually recovered, and when a few weeks later we started for Abyssinia, the whole party was in better health than when we left the hot and sultry shores of the Red Sea.

  • Twice before, Damash had, during our stay at Magdala, started for Watat, a village some twelve miles distant from Magdala, not far from where the Bechelo separates the province of Worahaimanoo from the plateau of Dahonte.

  • On the afternoon of the 10th November we started for Kedaref.

  • He started for me, his head appeared above the top of the ladder, he had a candle and a gad in his hand.

  • Father at the close of the Tripoli war, 1805, was about the age that I was when we started for Michigan.

  • When father and mother had traded all they could afford, it was nearly night, and we all got into the cart and started for home.

  • When they were ripe father borrowed the cart, picked a load of melons and (just before sundown) started for Detroit.

  • So when the morning of the "Fourth" came, we started for town.

  • We started for Paris on the job; and then I read in a later copy of the same paper about the smart young lady who'd stepped in ahead of us.

  • This was two days before we started for Amiens.

  • Kit Carson, about the same time, started for Taos, where he had been for a long time anxiously expected by his family and friends.

  • It was thus decided, and we started for Worcester, Chandler sitting beside the Squire.

  • Leaving the breakfast table, I started for Mrs. Cramp's.

  • She promised to be secret--she hates that she-cat--and the next morning I started for Guernsey.

  • I called the colored man, and we started for camp.

  • The rebel smiled, dismounted, gave the Irishman his horse, mounted the mule, and we started for camp.

  • We started for camp, but I did not want to take them in until after dark, so we rode around the suburbs of the town until night drew her sable mantle over the scene.

  • He stayed with us at Crabb Cot until the Monday, when we started for London; the Squire and Tod coming to the station to see us off.

  • Stephen Radcliffe had never been back since he started for Alcester in the morning.

  • The storm had disappeared the following morning, but the ground was white with a thin coating of snow; and in the afternoon, when we started for Timberdale to call on William Brook, the sky was blue and the sun shining.

  • Here we remained until we started for Tennessee.

  • After a while we started for Alexandria, moving very slowly, marching and halting by turns, the roads being choked with artillery and trains.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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