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From the neighbourhood of the Vega's winter quarters When the Vega was beset, the sea near the coast, as has been already stated, was covered with newly formed ice, too thin to carry a foot passenger, but thick enough to prevent the passage of a boat.— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
Flight! Where and how--beset by enemies?— Tecumseh : a Drama
Nothing! And yet, if exertion can benefit our race, or even our own country--if the sum of human misery can be alleviated--if these suffering people can be raised in the scale of civilization and happiness--it is a cause in which I could suffer, it is a cause in which I have suffered and do suffer_; hemmed in, beset, anxious, perplexed, and the good intent marred by false agents--surrounded by weakness, treachery, falsehood, and folly, is suffering enough; and to feel myself on the threshold of success, and only withheld by the want of adequate means, increases this suffering.— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

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