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

The story as told in his own language reads like the recountal of an everyday event.

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

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)

When I used the word 'pace,' I had a certain graphic illustration in my mind—an incident I once heard from the manager of a railway—the recountal of which will show your Majesty what I mean.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence

Kent was thinking of Loring's recountal as he stood looking down on her.

From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis