disembogue
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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 R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
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 Thomas Herbert Darlow
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 Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.
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 William Cornwallis Harris
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 Augustus Earle
It became a matter of curious speculation, what course this river pursued, and at what place it disembogued itself into the sea.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
A fine large creek, containing a chain of large water-holes went to the north-east, and disembogued probably into Bremer's Bay.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
This place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
As affairs now appeared to grow serious, the Noah’s Ark disembogued the whole of its living contents, and a minute inspection of the stables was commenced by the whole party.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Herbert Willis
Some parts in earth are swallowed up; the most, In ample oceans disembogued, are lost.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson
For upon their entering upon that sea, they violently press upon it, and so cause the flow; but they disemboguing themselves, there is a cessation of the impetuousness, by which means the ebb is produced.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
The same Coltham coach stopped at the Lamb Inn, and the same group of idle loungers took an interest in its disemboguing of its contents.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Will looked again towards the flagon; but great was his dismay on beholding it in the very act of disemboguing its precious contents into another gulf as insatiable as his own.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
As these must make angles to each other, in order to form different roads, the land towards the disemboguing of the river will take the arrangement of a triangle.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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