Citations:outset


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It swung so softly in the outset that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house.
 * Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms.