rencounter
Example Sentences
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This rencounter was a real misfortune; as, in the battle which ensued, the former disobedience and mad vagaries of Landais, her commander, were about to be converted into absolute treason.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
Sylvie bowed, and looked straight on, remembering such a rencounter years agone.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
I emphasize it specially here that this war was mortal rencounter between two different nations.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
But really the possible alternatives of rencounter are far less numerous.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
Concealing himself from any chance of a rencounter, he allotted a space of twelve minutes by his watch, and time never paced more tardy with him in all his life.
From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang
