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Sentence #241583

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WestofEden WestofEden September 3, 2013 September 3, 2013 at 4:36:43 PM UTC link Permalink

start for: some place to begin a journey to some place. When shall we start for Springfield? We will start for Detroit before dawn.

I wonder when these sentences were written. Was it in the first or second half of the 20th century?

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You must start for Nagoya now.

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