rencounter

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Guy Fawkes lingered for a moment, doubting whether he should mention his rencounter with Humphrey Chetham.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

This rencounter at Front Royal was one of the most brilliant affairs of the war and it illustrated well the marvelous intuition with which General Custer often grasped the situation, in an instant of time.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey

But the rencounter at Rakoniz," observed Henry Schlick, "remained, as I have heard, undecided.

From Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague by Kohn, Spiegfried

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 Hamilton, Gail

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 Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte