recountal
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of recountal
Example Sentences
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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
Indeed, a recountal of the land battles of the war of 1812 would hardly be pleasant reading for Americans.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
The doctor, breaking away from the lengthy recountal of Mrs. Lorton, went upstairs to the spare room, where still sat Mr. Drake Vernon on the edge of the bed, very white, but very self-contained.
From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles
The story as told in his own language reads like the recountal of an everyday event.
From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
With regard to the stories reprinted, "The Last Room of All" illustrates old-world influence, surely, in its recountal of events in an age long past, the time of the Second Emperor Frederick of Swabia.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
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