rencounter

Example Sentences

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After the first awkwardness of such a rencounter had worn off Dorothy found Wilfred entertaining.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

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

There was to be, he presumed, a rencounter, or meeting engagement; he merely had sealed orders, to be opened at a certain spot on the route.

From At Plattsburg by French, Allen

I emphasize it specially here that this war was mortal rencounter between two different nations.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

His thoughts had been for some time employed in the selection of a suitable companion, when this rencounter happened with Miss Dudley.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden