besetment
Example Sentences
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So in one short week, two are gone out of my husband's class.—This morning I felt great power in prayer, and an ardent desire for full deliverance from every besetment.
From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by John Lyth
I am determined to watch and pray until I obtain a triumph over this trying besetment.
From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by J. George (John George) Hodgins
He made every effort to shake off this new besetment, this fresh assault upon the tranquility he had attained.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
For since he had come out of prison he was every day more subject to this besetment of recalling the past.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
Our work was now at an end, and we had only to wait for a northerly or westerly wind to release us from our present "besetment," for, in fact, it was now nothing more.
From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by Sir William Edward Parry
