set about
/sɛt‿əˈbaʊt/ verb- Used with the adverb sense of about.
- To circulate or spread (news, a rumour, etc.)
- To start doing or to devote oneself to some task; to set upon. · He set about designing his homepage.· She set about the task with a will.
Past -
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Then she went back to the house, and having helped herself and Toto to a good drink of the cool, clear water, she set about making ready for the journey to the City of Emeralds.
Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and on the other with prim Lombardies.
She had made friends with the spring down in the hollow--that wonderful deep, clear icy-cold spring; it was set about with smooth red sandstones and rimmed in by great palm-like clumps of water fern; and beyond it was a log bridge over the brook.
It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry.
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