rencounter
Example Sentences
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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 John Calvin Reed
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
Monsieur, that I am enchanted at this rencounter!
From Rosin the Beau by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
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 William Milligan Sloane
First, there was the old and ever present cause of solicitude in relation to his own origin, the doubtful nature of which had been the remote cause of the unhappy rencounter of the morning.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
