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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disembogue .
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Examples
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It became a matter of curious speculation, what course this river pursued, and at what place it disembogued itself into the sea.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Here my bright river disembogued in noise and foam.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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He turned away, to begin using his glass, sweeping the different ravines -- dark, savage-looking gorges which disembogued upon the smiling, garden-like expanse on both sides of the river, and seeming strangely in contrast, with their stony sides, to the tree-besprinkled verdure and lovely groves of the little plain not more than a mile long by half that space wide.
Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills George Manville Fenn 1870
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Rathlin Island on her starboard side, disembogued by the Northern
The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Jules Verne 1866
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Here is revealed one of the foremost of the causes which made the belief of the Dark Age in the numerous appearances of ghosts and devils so common and so intense that it gave currency to the notion that the swarming spirits of purgatory were disembogued from dusk till dawn.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Gideon did not fail to perceive the immense elevation of the bed of this stream over the French Broad, into which the Homony disembogued itself within two or three miles of his father's residence.
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I. 1839
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This place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself.
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836
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A fine large creek, containing a chain of large water-holes went to the north-east, and disembogued probably into Bremer's Bay.
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 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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This place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself.
Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Washington Irving 1821
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Virginians are accustomed to counteract with a mint julep, and such as cloudy heads iind conf'emal to corritation; that the Sa pecanoe boys, the Ohio militia, the Michi - iran raccoon catchers and a band of music, were all disembogued upon the opposite shore.
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