besetment

Example Sentences

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I am determined to watch and pray until I obtain a triumph over this trying besetment.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)

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.

Hitherto it had been the chief aim of Arctic explorations to avoid besetment, and to try and creep round the land shores.

From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph

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

Jane listened attentively, and promised to remember the warning, and guard against what she knew to be her greatest besetment.

From For John's Sake and Other Stories. by Perram, Annie Frances