Let’s find something for a battering ram,” suggested Dick, starting down the stairs.
The boys stood for some moments wondering what this could mean, and were just thinking of starting a fresh game of "catch smugglers," when there came a banging at the door.
A meeting will be held in the 'old lab' directly after dinner to-day, to make plans for starting a magazine in opposition to The Ronleian.
She seems to live in a chronic state of fear, starting and shrinking at every unexpected sound.
Starting up from the useless task, he looked in his desk, found the infallible prescription, and then snatched his watch from his pocket.
Uncle Godfrey," he said at last, starting out of a reverie, "you have been good enough to make me your heir.
When I got to Crabb Cot this morning, sir, Mr. Todhetley was on the point of starting for Worcester in the phaeton with his son and Johnny Ludlow," went on Tom.
One December evening the carrier's cart was just startinghomewards from the door of the Magpie and Stump.
In vain--because, hanging fast on to one leg, with resolute grip and starting fiery eyes, was the faithful Moses.
Starting up, he seized the intruder by the throat, but instantly released him, laughing.
The horns at first when starting from the head trended directly backwards, and then curved forwards, the tips being very pointed.
Twisting spirally downwards when starting from the head, they then curved upwards like a hook.
Suddenly starting up as the captives approached, she spoke quickly to the braves around her, gesticulating and screaming.
The man's eyes were starting out of his head, his tongue was protruding, when a dozen strong hands dragged the soldier from his victim, and thrust him bruised and breathless into the hut.
Starting up, his rifle in two pieces in his hand, the soldier listened eagerly.
The large snake paused for a few minutes to look about it, soon slowly descending, and thenstarting in pursuit, the nogaputsane came to the river, which it did not like, and returned into the bush.
I am sure of a welcome at Chantilly, and that shall be my starting point.
The horse ambulance took him to a hospital and thence to another hospital, and thence he went by motor ambulance at night to the starting point, where he arrived five days after he had entered the field.
Insomnia, general tremor, and a bad stuttering developed, with a habit of starting in terror at the slightest noise.
Soon after, he was wounded in the thigh and was able to remain in hospital a fortnight, exposed, however, to shell-fire and given to starting at noise and occasional war dreams.
Phocas and Gutmann prefer the theory of a reflex disorder starting from the pleura.
There was insomnia, a general tremor, bad stuttering, and a habit of starting in terror at the slightest noise.
On speaking, the patient stammered in starting sentences.
May 27, seizure at 2 in the afternoon, starting in left arm.
If you don't want to get into trouble, you'd better be starting back home!
As the girls went to their room for their hats, they met Cora and Henry just starting up the stairway with broom, dustpan and mop.
Not until she heard Henry starting up the back stairs to his own quarters, did Doris dare venture to the door.
Starting from these three axioms, we apply the reasoning of St. Thomas, 1a 2æ, q.
We can imagine a government in a newly settled country starting on the understanding that all land was State land, and that all ground rents were to be paid into the State exchequer.
The next day the Spanish Commandante on Corregidor discovered that Dewey had blockaded the port of Manila, so he restrained Marie from starting home for nearly a week.
In starting on her journey Marie left Manila by a little Filipino foot-path which enters the city in the northeastern part near the San Sebastian church.
About an hour and a half after starting we came on mistily outlined pressure ridges.
Starting mildly, with broken clouds, little snow, and gleams of sunshine, it grew in intensity until this forenoon, when there was heavy snowfall and the sky overspread with low nimbus cloud.
We are just starting our march with no very hopeful outlook.
Then everyone was called on to speak, starting on my left and working round the table; the result was very characteristic of the various individuals--one seemed to know so well the style of utterance to which each would commit himself.
Soon after starting we found ourselves in rather a mess; bad pressure ahead and long waves between us and the land.
Very cold nights now and cold feet starting march, as day footgear doesn't dry at all.
Once we get to Safety Camp we can stay as long as we like before starting our journey.
I had luckily inquired about the Alpine rope before starting the march, and now Cherry-Garrard hurriedly brought this most essential aid.
The trouble was to get a balance between the two, and this is effected by starting up the engines, then stopping and covering them and allowing the heat to spread by conductivity--of course, a rather clumsy device.
I really dreaded starting after lunch, but after some trouble to break the sledge out, we went ahead without a hitch, and in a mile or two recovered our leading place with obvious ability to keep it.
He also told me the plans for our depôt journey on which we shall be starting in about ten days' time.
An hour after starting we came on huge pressures and great street crevasses partly open.
I thought we were going to get in a good march, but on starting again the drift came thicker than ever and soon the course grew wild.
He obeyed an impulse he had not felt since his mother died, starting towards Vesta and throwing his arms around her, and drawing her to his breast.
It is you who must encourage the faith I feel starting somewhere in this room, like a chimney swallow that would fain fly out.
In yonder tree the bald eagle was starting out upon his Algerine work of vehemence and piety, to intercept the hawk and steal his cargo.
There were a few penny-mining-stock brokerage firms doing business with the outside world, and the idea of starting an advertising agency appealed to me strongly.
In this case the two gods are seen starting asunder, but looking inwards, after the decisive moment.
It is rather that of a person starting aside in alarm.
It appears from Carrey's drawing that Poseidon was starting back in a direction contrary to that of Athene, with the weight of his body thrown on the left knee, which is bent.
The old men starting from the fields and out of the woods would carry their guns on their shoulders and go also.
It was the work of an instant for Tubby to dash below and give a turn to the rear starting device on the engine.
And she tricked Bulgaria into attacking us and so starting the second war.
For just a second, as Hallo came out into the boathouse, Dick thought of starting up suddenly, covering him with a revolver, and forcing him to surrender.
The next morning he called rather testily to the hired man, who was starting up the lane with an axe, "Hiram, I've got other work for you.
The next morning Mr. Alford parted with Brandt as had been arranged, the latter starting ostensibly for the nearest railway station.
When asked, not long before his death, how it was that he had first thought of starting his extensive Car establishment, he answered, "It grew out of my back!
The only money his master allowed him at starting was fourpence.
But the time for starting his great experiment had not yet arrived.
The main body of the enemy’s back field had been led into starting in the wrong direction.
With their coach watching them closely, the Barville lads were making an impression by their snappy practice, in which short dashes, every man starting fast and running low, seemed to be a particular feature.
Piper was at school to-day, and we left him starting out for practice with the rest of the team.
He told himself that he never showed to worse advantage, for he was troubled all through the visit by a horrible sensation of nervous dread, starting at every sound, and hurriedly bringing his visit to a close.
At first starting we were so feeble as scarcely to be able to move forwards, and the descent of the bank of the river through the deep snow was a severe labour.
Thick snowy weather and a head wind prevented us from starting the following day, but on the morning of the 23d we set out, carrying with us the remainder of the singed robe.
Starting this morning with a fresh breeze in our favour, we soon reached that part of Barry's Island where the canoes were detained on the 2d and 3d of this month, and contrary to what we then experienced, the deer were now plentiful.
Their loads weighed from sixty to ninety pounds each, exclusive of their bedding and provisions, which at starting must have been at least as much more.
The wind having abated in the night, we prepared forstarting at an early hour.
It was said, that by starting early in the season, she could reach a point within about two hundred miles of Salt Lake, and thus communicate with a vast region there, then comparatively isolated.
Nevertheless, we took the precaution before starting to arm our cook and both drivers with Springfield muskets, while we ourselves were equipped with a Spencer or Remington rifle apiece, as well as our revolvers.
Then we had to drag and pole it back along the opposite bank, half a mile or so above, whence we could row it diagonally across to the place of starting again.
Herbert," cried Christine, this time startingup in the boat, "I am not mistaken!
Nothing but a dreary existence is now before me, and--but, by Jupiter, there goes the starting bell!
She looked at him timidly, sadly, and then closed her eyes, to check the starting tears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: original; outset; source; start; takeoff
