besetment
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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
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 Annie Frances Perram
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
Our work was now at an end, and we had only to wait for a northerly or westerly wind to release us from our present "besetment," for, in fact, it was now nothing more.
From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by Sir William Edward Parry
That-air besetment of Floretty's," said The Hired Man,—"singin—she inhairited,— Her father wuz addicted—same as her— To singin'—yes, and played the dulcimer!
From A Child-World by James Whitcomb Riley
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