Sentence examples for commencing a journey from inspiring English sources

His history is mysterious even to him; he scrapes out a meager living working with his taciturn uncle and a cousin -- and his life is swiftly overturned when the blue stone hatches a dragon, commencing a journey into murder and magic, among elves, warriors, kings and monsters, leading, of course, to a battle between good and evil.

And so commenced a journey down a telecom rabbit hole, where one encountered complicated regulatory rulings, equipment and billing disputes, and puzzling invocations of rico statutes and Y2K worries.

Bakunin was arrested in Dresden, commencing a long journey through the prisons of Europe.

She borrowed some money to buy a horse-drawn caravan and commenced a two-year journey northwards.

Harvest/Harcourt, Paper, $14. "You are the first tourist in Afghanistan," Stewart, a young Scotsman, was warned by an Afghan official before commencing the journey recounted in this splendid book.

Those with a relatively large amount of fat, may make stops during migration of only 1 2 days; although they have lost weight since commencing their journey, they have enough energy reserves to reach the wintering areas.

Mr. Theofan said the city would commence a nationwide search.

But then he commenced a soliloquy that lasted 20 minutes.

Therefore, we commenced a more direct assessment.

With Half-Safe sailed back to New York, the Carlins commenced their journey for a second time on 3 July, but were once again forced back to shore a few days later, this time after nearly being asphyxiated due to a cracked exhaust pipe.

Of course the visit to Dignitas or Switzerland has become a modern shorthand but I had never before met someone who had actually been to the edge, looked over and willingly commenced the journey into nothingness.