reconnoitre
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He was headed, generally, for Lake Superior, and would reconnoitre once he got to Lake Michigan.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
The Sunni caliph Mansur, whose new empire stretched from India to the Atlantic, sailed up and down the Tigris to reconnoitre a place for his home.
From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014
He did not even reconnoitre to discover the whereabouts of the enemy.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Coolidge, through the War Department, ordered Army planes to reconnoitre from Boston, but their work was delayed by fogs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The day following he sent Captain Pedro de Chaves to take possession of the ships belonging to the corsair, and Captain Gabriel de Rivera to reconnoitre his fortifications.
From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga
The citation for temporary Lieutenant Robert Hastings read: "He personally reconnoitred the approach to the position under very severe rifle and machine-gun fire."
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2018
Dubbed Little Nellie, the machine enabled Bond, played by Sean Connery, to fight off a helicopter attack as he reconnoitred a Spectre base hidden in a Japanese volcano.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2013
Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exactly a century ago State surveyors reconnoitred a rail route over Pennsylvania's forested ridges between Chambersburg and Pittsburgh.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the approaches to Mount Everest from the North-west, North, North-east and East had been carefully reconnoitred and a possible route to the top had been found up the North-east ridge.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
Erisso's daughter Anna, meanwhile, finds herself torn between familial and patriotic loyalties and her attraction to Maometto, whom she had fallen in love with when he was reconnoitring Greece in disguise.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2013
He became active last year as an oratorical scout, reconnoitring British public opinion in advance of the isolationist policies formally adopted by His Majesty's Government last week .
From Time Magazine Archive
By last week, instead of marching, U. S. business was generally marking time, with only a few industries pushing ahead like scouts reconnoitring in enemy territory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the conduct of the reconnoitring officer, our march seemed slow,—there were some halts and countermarches.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
Major Nicholson, in command of the battery, had been wounded early in the morning while reconnoitring for this position, the command then devolving upon Captain Oliver, who took the battery into action.
From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Ernest W. Hamilton
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