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One incident in this case attracted a good deal of attention and brought many compliments from the daily press: it was a rencountre between the Attorney-General, Mr. Syester, and the witness, and is given here as extracted from the phonographical reports in the New York newspapers:
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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Stories ofthisldnd ought to f elate fome great accident; forae ftrange rencountre, or remarkable example of Vice, Vertue,
Moral Essays: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties 1677
chained_bear commented on the word rencountre
"RENCOUNTRE, an unexpected and irregular combat between two bodies of men." (citation in list description)
October 9, 2008