Started

Examples

• I started, but was only discomposed a moment; I knew the voice and speaker. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Will started up from his chair and reached his hat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He kissed Amy as she started up to meet him, nodded to Fanny, nodded to his father, gloomed on the visitor without further recognition, and sat down. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She started to look around. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The next morning Early started on his march to the capital of the Nation, arriving before it on the 11th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So on the following day they started north along the shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Finally I put a rope to my trunk, which was about the size of a carpenter's chest, and started to pull this from the baggage-car to the passenger-car. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My Prince, he started, where hast thou-- and then he stopped, but I knew the question that his lips dared not frame. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She started and looked up. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• After giving them a little rest, to quiet their fears, we started again. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He started at daylight the next morning, and accomplished more than was expected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The feverish young inn-keeper and ex-engineer started like Satan at the touch of Ithuriel's spear. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The next day Mr. Payne, of Georgetown, and I started on our return. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Go catch that horse, he called to Primitivo who had started over toward him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I stepped out into the rain and the carriage started. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He started to his feet, and stared at me in silence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He started, made a short run, and stopped and looked over his shoulder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Deep in midnight, she was awaked by a rustling near her; she would have started up, but her stiff joints refused to obey her will. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He started at the word ambitious. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Georgiana almost started, and she opened her blue eyes wild and wide. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once more. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He turned red and started back from her with a look of great alarm and horror. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I think he must have lived among a lot of people who were very solemn, because I went out riding with him in the Bois de Boulogne and started in to tell him American stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The book, however, had been left in the billiard-room, so I pulled on my dressing-gown and started off to get it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The next night the retreat started. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But he had started round, surprised and startled that she should ask him to look in her bag, which she always kept so VERY private to herself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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