disembogue

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There is perhaps no better example of the Dutch power over water than the contrast between the present narrow canal through which the river must disembogue and the unprofitable marsh which once spread here.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.

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

There is a place in Madrid called the Puerta del Sol, which is a central spot, surrounded with shops, into which the four principal streets disembogue, if I may be allowed the expression. 

From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Darlow, Thomas Herbert

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

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