rencounter
Example Sentences
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Your friendship for my mother, I am well assured, will induce you to acquaint her with this rencounter: I do not wish it to be concealed.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I by Sophia Reeve
His rencounter with her had undoubtedly been providential, as he had not the slightest idea that she could possibly be in his neighbourhood.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
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
From these extracts it will be seen how commanding officers, when they write their official reports of a night rencounter, are apt to draw on their imaginations for the facts.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd
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
