besetment

Example Sentences

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And the curious part of the besetment is that I have known all along that I was killing your love for me.

From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis

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

After a long and dangerous besetment in the polar ice to the north of Bering Strait, the American whaling-ship Navrach was abandoned August 14, 1897.

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

So in one short week, two are gone out of my husband's class.—This morning I felt great power in prayer, and an ardent desire for full deliverance from every besetment.

From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by Lyth, John

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.