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

Of the trivial encounters that go to complete the naval annals of the year, only the briefest recountal is necessary.

From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

There was a general laugh at this recountal of old Dave’s wit, when one of the crowd mentioned that a “policeman-lookin’” fellow had got off the train and gone up to Gardiner’s.

From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.

The recountal of his performance would doubtless afford much entertainment to the pair in the post-office.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

This was accounted the greatest jest, the most unfailingly mirthful thing in the recountal, ever known in the annals of Spring Valley.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson