disembogue

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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 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)

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

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