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
About a month ago Count Edmondo di Robilant and Mechanic Mauranta Quaranta left Sao Paulo, Brazil in a fast Fiat pursuit plane, to reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless, the submarines went out to reconnoitre while the mine sweepers swept the channel and the destroyers sped through, followed by the cruisers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kenneth slipped down from his saddle, and went forward on foot to reconnoitre, the rest halting.
From A Hero of Li?ge by Strang, Herbert
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
Their mark was the south-western angle of the fort; that was the quarter, said Copstone, whence it might be most safely reconnoitred.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
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
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
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
The ditch and parapets about the fort were objects of careful observation from the moment of placing our lines, and opinions coincided with those of reconnoitring officers that the former could be passed without ladders.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James
Contrary to all expectation, De130 Graff, perhaps too old for service, wasted eight days in reconnoitring, and abandoned post after post.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
