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

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

Indeed, a recountal of the land battles of the war of 1812 would hardly be pleasant reading for Americans.

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

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

In the course of the evening Mrs. Maxwell took occasion to inquire what progress they were making, thereby unconsciously challenging a somewhat surprising recountal.

From Hepsey Burke by Westcott, Frank N. (Frank Noyes)