rencounter

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I cannot helpe smiling, whenever I think of my rencounter with William this morning.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

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 Kidd, James Harvey

When this strange rencounter had subsided, the storming party was ordered for twelve o'clock.

From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John

The most trivial play of pleasantry was embittered into an insult; the simplest sting of passing controversy was often to be healed only by a rencounter in the field.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

And to this feeling every unusual circumstance of our rencounter, the darkness in which we had fought, our nakedness, even the resin on the twine, appeared to contribute.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis