commences
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Examples
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in.
The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
He who commences many things finishes but few.