rencounter
Example Sentences
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It was evident, she thought, that Emma as yet knew nothing of that strange rencounter on the stairs.
From Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
It is not the smile, the chance word, the pleasant or even the hostile rencounter in the outer courts; it is that we do not respect each other’s silences.
From A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton
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
There was to be, he presumed, a rencounter, or meeting engagement; he merely had sealed orders, to be opened at a certain spot on the route.
From At Plattsburg by Allen French
Guy Fawkes lingered for a moment, doubting whether he should mention his rencounter with Humphrey Chetham.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
