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

At length whispers ran round the benches, of a rencounter between the two distinguished individuals; and, like all rumours of this nature, the results were pronounced to be of the most alarming kind.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Naught, from the evening of the rencounter, had we heard or seen of Ludolf.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

The most trivial play of pleasantry was embittered into an insult; the simplest sting of passing controversy was often to be healed only by a rencounter in the field.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

The rencounter between free labor and slave labor was very much like that now on between capitalists and labor organizations.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin