rencounter

Example Sentences

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Do you remember how he describes King Robert’s rencounter with the English knight?”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

Continuing onward, and hardly recovered from my astonishment at the rencounter with the coyotes, when up bounded, within thirty yards, three large deer, and with the coolest impudence stared me full in the face.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

His thoughts had been for some time employed in the selection of a suitable companion, when this rencounter happened with Miss Dudley.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

But really the possible alternatives of rencounter are far less numerous.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

This rencounter was a real misfortune; as, in the battle which ensued, the former disobedience and mad vagaries of Landais, her commander, were about to be converted into absolute treason.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various