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disembogue

[dis-em-bohg] / ˌdɪs ɛmˈboʊg /




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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

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

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 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 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)

Here my bright river disembogued in noise and foam.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter

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 Willis, Herbert

Towards three o'clock in the morning, the brig, leaving Rathlin Island on her starboard side, disembogued by the Northern Channel into the ocean.

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules

Some parts in earth are swallowed up; the most, In ample oceans disembogued, are lost.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

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 Irving, Washington

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 Roby, John

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 Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

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 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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




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