besetment
Example Sentences
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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 Alice Brown
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 John Lyth
After a besetment of eight months and nine days, in which she drifted twelve hundred miles to the south, the yacht escaped, buffeted, racked, and leaking.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
In the mist of her besetment the woman found herself thinking that the fine little hands in this gesture should have been lace-beruffled at the wrist.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson
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 Francis Lynde
