disembogue

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The white men who reached the Eskimo land from the south were discoverers following to the sea the three great rivers that disembogue into the Polar Sea: the Mackenzie, Coppermine, Back or Great Fish.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

The river Paraná forms a great artery between Brazil and Paraguay; upon each side of it a network of rivers disembogue.

From A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)

The Duero and Tagus, unfortunately for Spain, disembogue in Portugal, thus becoming a portion of a foreign dominion exactly where their commercial importance is the greatest. 

From A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain by Wise, Thomas James

The rivers of emancipated men neither disembogue into the ocean of spirit nor evaporate into the abyss of nonentity, but are blended with infinitude as an ontological integer.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Taking its source at Allooli, the highest point of the Gollo range, this torrent strives to disembogue into the extremity of the lake, although its waters seldom arrive so far, save during the rainy season.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis