rencounter

Example Sentences

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Monsieur, that I am enchanted at this rencounter!

From Rosin the Beau by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

This rencounter at Front Royal was one of the most brilliant affairs of the war and it illustrated well the marvelous intuition with which General Custer often grasped the situation, in an instant of time.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey

After the first awkwardness of such a rencounter had worn off Dorothy found Wilfred entertaining.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

Without a thought they began a sort of challenging rencounter with horse-artillery and cavalry.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

I was beginning to recover my tranquillity, when the appearance of Mr. Talton drove me from your protection:—of my subsequent rencounter with the smugglers, I have already informed you.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia