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.

At the top of the Bay of Islands, two rivers disembogue, the Wye Catte and the Kawakawa: they are both small but beautiful streams.

From A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 by Earle, Augustus

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

Till slowly it disembogue itself, in the thickening dusk, into expectant Paris, through a double row of faces all the way from Passy to the Hotel-de-Ville.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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