besetment
Example Sentences
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In any path of performance there is but one step which is irrevocable, namely, the final one, and in Charlotte Farnham's besetment this step was the mailing of the letter to Mr. Galbraith.
From The Price by Lynde, Francis
Alston had a vague uncomfortable besetment that his mother would have had a warmer hope for him if he had been tempted of demons, tortured by doubts.
From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice
He made every effort to shake off this new besetment, this fresh assault upon the tranquility he had attained.
From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
After a besetment of eight months and nine days, in which she drifted twelve hundred miles to the south, the yacht escaped, buffeted, racked, and leaking.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.
After a long and dangerous besetment in the polar ice to the north of Bering Strait, the American whaling-ship Navrach was abandoned August 14, 1897.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.
