recountal

Example Sentences

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Again, Darrow In Detroit a pallid, tense, exhausted attorney for the defense finished his plea with a recountal of the evolution of the Negro.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kent was thinking of Loring's recountal as he stood looking down on her.

From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis

The ideal that is faintly shadowed in The Sea Lady is more ethereal, less practical; the story, despite the naturalistic, half-cynical manner of its recountal, has the elements of romance.

From H. G. Wells by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)

He was minded to jest about the pessimist, but, to his great surprise, the hunchback listened to his recountal with a very grave face.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

Josephine St. Auban pondered over this barbarous recountal of an event which would seem to have been impossible in a civilized community.

From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson