His vaunted industry is but a vanity and of no effect, since he never gets home with anything he
starts with.
As if struck by some enchanter's wand, the sleepy ship and every sleeper in it all at once
started into wakefulness; and more than a score of voices from all parts of the vessel, simultaneously with the three notes from aloft, shouted forth the accustomed cry, as the great fish slowly and regularly spouted the sparkling brine into the air.
It was impossible to
start at so late an hour, and so it was not till next day soon after dawn that he set out.
Three times they were ranged ready to
start, but each time some horse thrust itself out of line, and they had to begin again.
So you must take the pen in hand, and
start the story."
Then the mistake was made of putting too little shot on her, and she rose high in the air, got her bearings and
started eastward across San Francisco Bay.
He
started to go on with her, but Long thrust in front again.
"The great thing is to make a good breakfast," and he
started with a couple of chops, saying that he would take these while they were hot, as the beef could wait.
For fourteen days he had not slept; until they had reached Garba his clothes had never been changed since they had
started upon their perilous journey.
I'm glad to have a little
start of him, anyhow, even if it isn't more than two days.
Some of the Mangaboos discovered them as soon as they left the House of the Sorcerer; but when they
started toward the mountain the vegetable people allowed them to proceed without interference, yet followed in a crowd behind them so that they could not go back again.
Then, accompanied by Umbopa, Khiva, Ventvogel, and half a dozen bearers whom we hired on the spot, we
started off on foot upon our wild quest.