besetment

Example Sentences

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Hitherto it had been the chief aim of Arctic explorations to avoid besetment, and to try and creep round the land shores.

From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Jacobs, Joseph

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 Wilson, Harry Leon

Alston had a vague uncomfortable besetment that his mother would have had a warmer hope for him if he had been tempted of demons, tortured by doubts.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

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 Riley, James Whitcomb

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 Greely, Adolphus W.