rencounter

Example Sentences

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Do you remember how he describes King Robert’s rencounter with the English knight?”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

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 Reeve, Sophia

I emphasize it specially here that this war was mortal rencounter between two different nations.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

The sensation created on the following day by the exaggerated reports of the fearful rencounter and unheard of bravery of the tradesmen, was in proportion to the occasion.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various

The youths and their tutor hastened to the drawing-room, when William and his brother were congratulated on the fortunate issue of their rencounter with the tiger.

From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.