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"Set about" in a Sentence (17 examples)
For ſome vveeks before it [Parliament] met there vvas ſuch a number of Refugees coming over every day, vvho ſet about a moſt diſmal recital of the perſecution in France, and that in ſo many inſtances that vvere crying and odious, […]
[I]ndeede the whole island is a mount ascended by several terraces and walks all set about with orange and citron trees.
Ascending the hill we came to St. Sabina, an ancient fabric, formerly sacred to Diana; there in a Chapel is an admirable picture, the work of Livia Fontana, set about with columns of alabaster, […]
Two youths set about him.
He set about designing his homepage.
He [the Devil] ſetteth (I ſay) ſome to ſeeke the pleaſures of the fleſhe, in eating, drinking, & other filthye delite. And ſome he ſetteth about inceſſant ſeking for theſe worldly goodes.
Be not ſloathful in buſineſs, ſet to vvhatever thou ſetteſt about; Do vvhat thou doſt in as little time as thou canſt, and vvith all thy might, vvhat thy hand finds to do.
To yᵉ Commissʳˢ of the Navy, who having seene the project of the Infirmary, encourag'd the work, and were very earnest it should be set about immediately; […]
I look on the perfecting of this vvork, and the carrying it on thro' the remaining part of my life, as the greateſt ſervice I can do to God and to the vvorld; and therefore I ſet about it vvith great care and caution.
About this time Don Sancho's ſervant arrived at Seville, and according to the orders he had received, immediately ſat^([sic]) about enquiring into Dorothea's conduct.
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Let every man and woman here set about their ain business, as if there was nae sic thing as marquis or master, duke or drake, laird or lord, in this world.
[T]he return of the King, to which I and many looked forward as a manifestation of divine favour, seems to prove little else than a permitted triumph of the Prince of the Air, who setteth about to restore his Vanity-fair of bishops, deans, and such like, extruding the peaceful ministers of the word, whose labours have proved faithful to many hungry souls.
[T]his essential education might be more easily got, or given, than they fancy, if they set about it in the right way; while it is for no price, and by no favour, to be got, if they set about it in the wrong.
Now, it is not in the general, the ordinary, the elementary way, but it is in a high and special sense, that I claim for ancient Greece a marked, appropriated, distinctive place in the Providential order of the world. And I will set about explaining what I mean.
"Then we had best set about our part of the contract," said Hector Marot.
No time has been lost in setting about the implementation of non-controversial [Richard] Beeching proposals.
A book is a book and a movie is a movie, and whenever the latter merely sets about illustrating the former, it's a failure of adaptation, to say nothing of imagination.
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