besetment
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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
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
I am determined to watch and pray until I obtain a triumph over this trying besetment.
From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by J. George (John George) Hodgins
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
