Literary notes about start (AI summary)
The word "start" in literature conveys rich layers of meaning and function. It can mark a decisive moment or the initiation of an undertaking, as when journeys and new beginnings are set in motion [1, 2, 3] or when embarking on a venture is emphasized [4, 5, 6]. It also captures sudden physical reactions or shifts in emotion, illustrated by a startled response to unexpected motion or sound [7, 8, 9, 10]. In other contexts, it delineates the commencement of processes or actions—whether in routine instructions or as metaphorical rebirths in life [11, 12, 13]—thereby underlining the word’s versatile role in narrative structure and character development.
- ("And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow!") CHAPTER 9 OUR START—WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - “Then we will go back to Leghorn, and start immediately.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Let us start from that point, and let us count four days of storm, during which our rate of traveling must have been very great.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - Figure three thousand a year for living expenses, that would leave sixty-plenty of capital to start a clinic.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - When I marry her, I shall take her to Petersburg and there I shall start a newspaper.’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Tomorrow I shall start afresh—today I am a free agent for the first time in my life.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - Her tremulous and decayed accents were answered by a single word, but in a voice that made me start and bend toward the spot whence it had proceeded.
— from Twice-told tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - “Nothing,” returned Mrs. Pontellier, with a start, adding at once: “How stupid!
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin - I woke up with a start, and having lit the candle, sat up in bed, without venturing even to try to go to sleep again.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - You start at noon; I shall see you in three hours.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - I am doing my best to be ready to start on Tuesday morning.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo by Juliette Drouet and Louis Guimbaud - You little expected me but I’ve come to stay and make a fresh start.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce