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disembogue

[dis-em-bohg] / ˌdɪs ɛmˈboʊg /




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The Duero and Tagus, unfortunately for Spain, disembogue in Portugal, thus becoming a portion of a foreign dominion exactly where their commercial importance is the greatest. 

From A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain by Thomas James Wise

The white men who reached the Eskimo land from the south were discoverers following to the sea the three great rivers that disembogue into the Polar Sea: the Mackenzie, Coppermine, Back or Great Fish.

From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

There is a place in Madrid called the Puerta del Sol, which is a central spot, surrounded with shops, into which the four principal streets disembogue, if I may be allowed the expression. 

From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow

Till slowly it disembogue itself, in the thickening dusk, into expectant Paris, through a double row of faces all the way from Passy to the Hotel-de-Ville.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

Taking its source at Allooli, the highest point of the Gollo range, this torrent strives to disembogue into the extremity of the lake, although its waters seldom arrive so far, save during the rainy season.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

It became a matter of curious speculation, what course this river pursued, and at what place it disembogued itself into the sea.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

The creek disembogued in a nearly landlocked bay, whose comparatively still waters were passed, and the boat began to be tossed by the waves of the broad bay.

From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Oliver Optic

Some part in earth are swallowed up; the most In ample oceans disembogued, are lost: He shades the woods, the valleys he restrains With rocky mountains, and extends the plains.

From Heathen Mythology by Various

Some parts in earth are swallowed up; the most, In ample oceans disembogued, are lost.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson

A fine large creek, containing a chain of large water-holes went to the north-east, and disembogued probably into Bremer's Bay.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

The same Coltham coach stopped at the Lamb Inn, and the same group of idle loungers took an interest in its disemboguing of its contents.

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

As these must make angles to each other, in order to form different roads, the land towards the disemboguing of the river will take the arrangement of a triangle.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp

For upon their entering upon that sea, they violently press upon it, and so cause the flow; but they disemboguing themselves, there is a cessation of the impetuousness, by which means the ebb is produced.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Will looked again towards the flagon; but great was his dismay on beholding it in the very act of disemboguing its precious contents into another gulf as insatiable as his own.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby




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