besetment
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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
He made every effort to shake off this new besetment, this fresh assault upon the tranquility he had attained.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
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
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 Adolphus W. Greely
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
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