rencounter

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Continuing onward, and hardly recovered from my astonishment at the rencounter with the coyotes, when up bounded, within thirty yards, three large deer, and with the coolest impudence stared me full in the face.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

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

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

The youths and their tutor hastened to the drawing-room, when William and his brother were congratulated on the fortunate issue of their rencounter with the tiger.

From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.

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