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

The ideal that is faintly shadowed in The Sea Lady is more ethereal, less practical; the story, despite the naturalistic, half-cynical manner of its recountal, has the elements of romance.

From H. G. Wells by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)

We abandoned our consideration of the general naval events of the war, to turn to a recountal of the exploits of Paul Jones at the close of the year 1776.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

The recountal of his performance would doubtless afford much entertainment to the pair in the post-office.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

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