besetment

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This besetment, on September 12, 1846, must have been a grievous blow to Franklin, who was now practically assured of the existence of the northwest passage along the continental coast of North America.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.

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

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.

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

It was now two hundred days since their besetment, and they had drifted more than six hundred miles, with all in health save the doctor.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.