Some take the invention of printing as a starting-point, feeling that the chief element of our progress has been the gathering of information by the poorer classes.

So much for the sentimental point of viewa starting-point, by the way, which usually makes all the difference in a man's life.

The day on which Alexandria was captured they declared fortunate and directed that for the years to come it should be taken as the starting-point of enumeration by the inhabitants of that town.

We do not want Great Britain to become a hotbed of reactionary plotting and the starting-point of restoration raids into the territories of emancipated peoples.

Six large detached buildings, three stories high, all radiating from a rotunda which serves as the common centre, and touching each other at the starting-point, separated by courtyards which grow broader in proportion as the buildings spread out, pierced with a thousand little dormer windows which give light to the cells, surrounded by a high wall, and presenting from a bird's-eye point of view the drape of a fansuch is Mazas.

Inn accommodation can be had, and it is a good starting-point for several excursions.

Terminus of the railway line from Lourdes, and starting-point for the diligences to Cauterets, Luz, St. Sauveur, and Barèges. Hotels.

Portland enjoys superb advantages as a starting-point for tourist travel.

If an abstract theme be not an advisable starting-point, what is?

The scratch on the safe door, slight and minute as it was, was his starting-point.

That is the starting-point for the Government with regard to the present crisis.

The starting-point of Crabbe's desire to portray village-life truly was a certain indignation he felt at the then still-surviving conventions of the Pastoral Poets.

I do not know whether Mr. JOYNSON HICKS claims any connection with Hicks's Hall, which stands in the old road-books as the starting-point of the great highway to the North, but he became almost lyrical in his denunciation of the proposal to put all the roads in the country in charge of a railwayman like Sir ERIC GEDDES.

In such cases it would appear that it is loss of a portion of periosteum that is the starting-point.

While in electric effects an influence exercised by the matter placed between bodies was speedily observedthe starting-point of a new and fertile doctrine of electricityin the case of gravitation not a trace of an influence exercised by intermediate matter could ever be discovered.

So well, however, had she succeeded in her aims, that my emancipation from the school-room was but the starting-point of more eager study, though now the study turned into the lines of thought towards which my personal tendencies most attracted me.

I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting-point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing of the Democracy headed by Senator Douglas.

I found that, taking almost anything as a starting-point and letting my thoughts play about it, there would presently come out of the darkness, in a manner quite inexplicable, some absurd or vivid little incident more or less relevant to that initial nucleus.

All the efforts therefore of the Royalists were concentrated upon taking the capital before it became the starting-point of a new campaign.

He landed at the mouth of the Kentucky, but rightly concluded that as a starting-point against the British posts it would be better to choose a place farther west, so he drifted on down the stream, and on the 27th of May [Footnote: This is the date given in the deposition, in the case of Floyd's heirs, in 1815; see MSS.

Still they gave a starting-point for the flame of the high-pressure acetylene torch.

But the starting-point of the reasoning here seems to be the fact of the two phrases; and this suggests that the argument may be merely verbal.

In the founder's mind, this starting-point was to be the seed for a sort of confraternity with the mark of true friendship and unity of faith.

BERBER (8), a town in Nubia, on the Nile, occupied by the English; starting-point of caravans for the Red Sea; railway was begun to Suakim, but abandoned.

About the safest course is to spread out the map and run a straight line between the principal points on the proposed route, note the larger villages, towns, and cities near the line so drawn, make a list of them in the order they come from the starting-point, and simply inquire at each of these points for the best road to the next.