recountal

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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 story as told in his own language reads like the recountal of an everyday event.

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

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

With regard to the stories reprinted, "The Last Room of All" illustrates old-world influence, surely, in its recountal of events in an age long past, the time of the Second Emperor Frederick of Swabia.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various