recountal

Example Sentences

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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

The doctor, breaking away from the lengthy recountal of Mrs. Lorton, went upstairs to the spare room, where still sat Mr. Drake Vernon on the edge of the bed, very white, but very self-contained.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles

As an eyewitness recountal of the extraordinary lives and powers of modern Hindu saints, the book has importance both timely and timeless.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

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