jumping-off place

“This is the only place in the souk you can buy safety pins,” he said.

He hasn't bothered to visit Iguala, the place where the students were abducted and killed.

This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.

He looked strangely out of place in the dusty combat uniform.

The associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.

As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.

Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician.