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
Kent was thinking of Loring's recountal as he stood looking down on her.
From The Grafters by Francis Lynde
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 Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
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
There was a general laugh at this recountal of old Dave’s wit, when one of the crowd mentioned that a “policeman-lookin’” fellow had got off the train and gone up to Gardiner’s.
From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead
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