rencounter
Example Sentences
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At length whispers ran round the benches, of a rencounter between the two distinguished individuals; and, like all rumours of this nature, the results were pronounced to be of the most alarming kind.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
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
Naught, from the evening of the rencounter, had we heard or seen of Ludolf.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
The two old Cavaliers laid about them in a style worthy of their best and most chivalrous days, and the citizens as stoutly supported them although but poorly armed and equipped for such a rencounter.
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
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 Sophia Reeve
