Commences

Examples

• The idea cannot be put aside, and with such poor aids as he can command he commences his task. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At this period, the termination of an animal's love for its offspring,--the true affection of the human parent commences. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If not already directed, require your men to keep three days' rations in their haversacks, not to be touched until a movement commences. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In this locality the rubber harvest commences as soon as the Amazon falls which is usually about the first of August. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Tis not wi' _them_ 't commences. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In the joking commences a rottenness. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• So commences the new philosophy! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Then it passes through a second press, and finally the sheet commences a long journey up and down over a series of steam-heated drying rolls, by which the sheet is dried. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Voltaic action immediately commences, and the copper will continue to be deposited from the solution as long as the supply of fresh crystals of sulphate of copper is continued. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The writ, Sir, which commences the action,' continued Dodson, 'was issued regularly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Before the downward slope commences. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• When this is completed, the crab commences hammering with its heavy claws on one of the eye-holes till an opening is made. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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