besetment
Example Sentences
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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 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.
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 Parry, William Edward, Sir
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
From that time she steadily fought against her deadly sin, until its besetment lost all power over her.
From For John's Sake and Other Stories. by Perram, Annie Frances
