recountal

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Again, Darrow In Detroit a pallid, tense, exhausted attorney for the defense finished his plea with a recountal of the evolution of the Negro.

From Time Magazine Archive

Josephine St. Auban pondered over this barbarous recountal of an event which would seem to have been impossible in a civilized community.

From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson

This was accounted the greatest jest, the most unfailingly mirthful thing in the recountal, ever known in the annals of Spring Valley.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson

The preceding day had been filled with hardship and danger—so much so that my heart sank a little at the recountal of it.

From Spanish Doubloons by Kenyon, Camilla

With regard to the stories reprinted, "The Last Room of All" illustrates old-world influence, surely, in its recountal of events in an age long past, the time of the Second Emperor Frederick of Swabia.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various