besetment
Example Sentences
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After a besetment of twenty-four days, Iberville succeeded in extricating his vessel from the ice and passed into the bay.
From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.
The end of the besetment came at last.
From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.
Our work was now at an end, and we had only to wait for a northerly or westerly wind to release us from our present "besetment," for, in fact, it was now nothing more.
From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by Parry, William Edward, Sir
For since he had come out of prison he was every day more subject to this besetment of recalling the past.
From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice
That-air besetment of Floretty's," said The Hired Man,—"singin—she inhairited,— Her father wuz addicted—same as her— To singin'—yes, and played the dulcimer!
From A Child-World by Riley, James Whitcomb
