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disembogue

[dis-em-bohg] / ˌdɪs ɛmˈboʊg /




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There is perhaps no better example of the Dutch power over water than the contrast between the present narrow canal through which the river must disembogue and the unprofitable marsh which once spread here.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.

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

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

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

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

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

Towards three o'clock in the morning, the brig, leaving Rathlin Island on her starboard side, disembogued by the Northern Channel into the ocean.

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

Here my bright river disembogued in noise and foam.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare

This place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself.

From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving

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

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

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


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