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Definition of Imbosked
1. imbosk [v] - See also: imbosk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbosked
Literary usage of Imbosked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"But the Governour had imbosked one hundred men of the Hand; and when we were on
shore, they came upon They depart Then Abraham Cocke determined to fetch the ..."
2. Patriotic Addresses in America and England: From 1850 to 1885, on Slavery by Henry Ward Beecher (1887)
"Those are the labyrinthine roads, which, winding through sloughs and thickets or
imbosked and dark, seek to find a ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... out of the Mountaines, we went on shore with our Light- horse-man, with sixe
or seven Buts to fill with water. But the Governour had imbosked one ..."
4. The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco Islands: Being by Henry Middleton, Bolton Corney (1855)
"This matter was put in practice this night, and the general, three hours before
day, departed from the tents, and had imbosked ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"But the Governour had imbosked one hundred men of the Hand; and when we were on
shore, they came upon Some hurt. us, and killed one of our men, ..."
6. Christian Pamphlets by George Bush, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Jonathan Blanchard, Thomas Starr King, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Charles Murray Nairne, Elam Smalley, Joshua Thomas Tucker, Ezra STiles Gannett, Frederic Dan Huntington, Harv (1844)
"Those are the labyrinthine roads, which, winding through sloughs and thickets,
or imbosked and dark, seek to find a way around the rocks and steeps, ..."
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