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"The devil you do ----!" cried Renwick in English, starting forward and staring at the man.

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  1. a. & n. from Start, v.

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  1. a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
  2. appropriate to the beginning or start of an event
  3. (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear

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  • Our Great Ones mostly ignore it I thought of the little flint and steel that I knew she carried for fire-starting, and a small knife of hers that I'd once glimpsed. —  Robin Hobb
  • The Japanese international TV channel NHK World is to introduce hourly news bulletins in English, starting February 2. —  Critical Distance Weblog
  • LPGA Tour policy requiring players to be effective in English starting in 2009 is a "little drastic." —  News24
  • Family owned, Schlitterbahn opened its New Braunfels park in 1979 with four water slides starting from a German-style tower patterned after the Bergfried Guard Tower at Solms Castle in Braunfels, Germany, home of the original settlers of New Braunfels. —  Kansas City Kansan Homepage RSS
  • Lorena Ochoa of Mexico says a new LPGA policy requiring players to be effective in English starting in 2009 is a "little drastic." —  Waggle Room
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