bickering
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FRIDAY, 13th APRIL, 1759, Ferdinand is astir by daybreak; comes on, along one of those woody balleys, pickeering, reconnoitring;—in the end, directly up the Hill of Bergen; straight upon the key-point.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas
News sure enough: there, south of us on the heights of Ronnow, three or four miles off, are the Enemy, camped or pickeering about, 7 or 8,000 as we judge.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Carlyle, Thomas
The pickeering and manoeuvring of Stoffeln shall not detain us.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas
And the rest of the Battle, or rather the Battle itself,—for all hitherto has been pickeering and groping in the mist,—may be made conceivable in few words.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Carlyle, Thomas